Top 100 Quotes About By Myself
#1. You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you'll cage me on your shelf. I'll never learn to be just me, first by myself.
Carly Simon
#2. I just went off for two months traveling around Europe on a motorcycle and pretty much turned my phone off. I did 5,000 miles with my dad. We went through Holland, Germany, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia, Montenegro, Italy ... and then I did Spain and France by myself.
Michael Fassbender
#3. I don't do anything by myself. I have a whole crew to get me ready every day.
Iman
#4. I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.
Gene Luen Yang
#5. I live by myself. I come in the door, I can throw my stuff on the floor. I can leave the dishes.
Tika Sumpter
#6. I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all life long.
Elizabeth Blackwell
#7. I'm still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me.
Natalie Maines
#8. After working so long on something like this, it's great to go out and meet people and see the reactions and remind yourself that, oh, yeah,, I wasn't just working in a cave by myself for no reason.
Don Hertzfeldt
#9. "Close your mouth when you chew." That was my mother's big one.Why do people eat lunch together? I want to eat by myself. Chewing is one of the most revolting things to me. Wind makes me unnerved, too.
Doug Stanhope
#10. When I sit down and play guitar, I melt into the instrument. I can play for hours by myself. Playing guitar has given me such a wonderful life, and I'm grateful for it.
Alex Lifeson
#12. I live by myself, which I love. In this industry, you're so often surrounded by people and busy and talking to people. It's kind of lovely when you get home to just chill out.
Douglas Booth
#13. There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
Aaliyah
#14. I'm probably never happier than when I'm by myself in the water. What I've worked and sacrificed for is not to be on stage playing music but to surf in some secluded place. It's a grounding element. Waves don't care who you are.
Eddie Vedder
#15. I'm probably the sexiest and best in bed. Even if I'm by myself in bed.
Blink-182
#16. Love is a binding force, by which another is joined to me and cherished by myself.
Thomas Aquinas
#17. I'm good, I don't need no help. Cause I'm better off by myself then to start over with somebody else.
Drake
#18. I've lived on my own since I was 13 and not been to school and brought a son up who's now 18 and run theatre companies and bought a butcher's shop, learnt guitar by myself, taught myself to sing and that sort of stuff.
Stella Vine
#19. I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That's the goal. I want to feel what is real, at the end, and only what is real. Grip fiercely with my eyes all that is around me
the people of my intimate life, the objects in the room, without the evasions of fantasies.
Frank Lentricchia
#20. I don't consider myself a skilled enough instrumentalist to be able to create the atmosphere that I want with just my guitar by myself.
Thalia Zedek
#21. I create my own calm and I keep my balance, because I know that it's not really me, by myself ... The Creator always gives me the energy.
Erykah Badu
#22. When I was a senior in high school, I went to Ireland to study Irish Gaelic. And after one semester at Trinity College, I went way out to the west coast of Ireland and rented a little house by myself.
Rosemary Mahoney
#23. I was a French Quarter rat from the moment I could get on a bus by myself and go to the French Quarter. I played music most of my early life and it just seemed that to entertain people was a really good thing to do.
John Larroquette
#24. When I want to feel sexy, I like to dance-even if I'm at home by myself in my knee-high socks sliding there like 'Risky Business' ... my sisters and I, if one of us starts, we're all there in front of the mirror, dancing, and it's just obnoxious. I feel sexy when I do that.
AnnaLynne McCord
#25. I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried.
Lesley Visser
#26. Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
Arthur Helps
#27. I resolve for 1920 to sit down all by myself and take a personal stock-taking once a month. To be no more charitable in viewing my own faults than I am an viewing the faults of others. To face the facts candidly and courageously. To address myself carefully, prayerfully, to remedying defects.
B.C. Forbes
#28. I walk home by myself all the time , " Regan snapped at him
"That's different " Levi smiled at her warmly "You don't rock that Little Red Riding Hood vibe. You're scary
Rainbow Rowell
#29. When I'm by myself I revert to the times when I would forget about eating, stay up all night working, go until I felt an odd sensation I'd identify after some thought as hunger. Then I'd go through the refrigerator like a vacuum cleaner, sucking in whatever there was. Leftovers.
Margaret Atwood
#30. My process is to be by myself when I record. It's quite an emotional performance to pull off when someone else is in the room. I prefer to go away and have my own time with it, bring it in later.
Kimbra
#31. I decided it would do me good to be among people, even if it meant being among them by myself.
David R. Brown
#32. What I love the most is getting on the ice and just popping in a fabulous CD and skating - all by myself, the rink completely empty, just me and the music.
Michelle Kwan
#33. I could hunker down by myself and listen closely to mixes, but then to be able to have a sounding board of peers to get advice and feedback.
Aoife O'Donovan
#34. I didn't treat my girl like she was mine
Yeah, I thought I didn't need her at the time
But I changed my way of thinkin' when she left
Yeah, I finally learned my lesson, but I learned it by myself
Hunter Hayes
#35. Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
#36. Being on "SNL" was a goal that I had when I was younger. When I got fired, I just felt really mad and I felt really grossed out by the system and grossed out by myself and it just sort of knocked me on my ass.
Jenny Slate
#38. I personally apologize to any person who felt anything less than respected and valued by myself.
Kevin Shelley
#39. One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself.
William Hazlitt
#40. I was obsessed with movies when I was younger. During the summer, I would go by myself to a theater down the street from my house. I saw every comedy or science fiction movie that came out. My kids love going to the movies, but 3D scares them.
Allen Covert
#41. We put these things through their paces." He tensed suddenly. "Have you been using these the whole time we've been apart?" I knew what he was asking. "Only when I was by myself." I'd kept the sheets faithful to Tristan. Bully for me. We were so freaking screwed up. So freaking screwed.
R.K. Lilley
#42. I love movies. That's still my favorite form of escape, and I usually end up going alone. I love to go and sit in the theater by myself, no distractions.
Douglas Booth
#43. I meditate on God's life and I read the scriptures. I read something about Him, go through it and spend a lot of time by myself.
Jim Caviezel
#44. I can't have a lot of people around me all the time. It really bugs me out that I have that many people. I need to be by myself.
Curtis Jackson
#46. I'm a homebody, as many writers are, and need to be by myself, and I like to be by the Atlantic Ocean.
William Monahan
#47. I believe that whenever I want to learn something I can learn it much better and faster by myself if I'm motivated to learn it as opposed to kind of doing it in more a standard, institutionalized way.
Oren Peli
#48. I make fun whenever I go. If I go to restaurant by myself, rest assured, people will be talking about it.
Cloris Leachman
#49. I never was a hippie! I went to India because so many friends like Mia Farrow and the Beatles were going there to discover truth. And so I went and trekked through India by myself, but instead of discovering truth, I wanted to join the Peace Corps.
Jane Fonda
#50. My favorite moments in the show are when I stand by myself and sing.
Justin Timberlake
#51. I'm blessed with a good pair of ears. That's how I fooled my piano teacher. I'd watch his fingers and I'd listen to it, and I just kind of basically learned it by myself.
Eddie Van Halen
#52. I think the moment I discovered I definitely wanted to act was when I saw a play alone by myself when I was fourteen. Maybe it was a Moliere play? I discovered the atmosphere of the theater, and I knew I wanted to be an actor.
Louis Garrel
#53. We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself.
Walter Salles
#54. I don't like to write music by myself anymore. It's boring. I want the jamming, the push and pull, and the excitement that comes with it.
Nikki Sixx
#55. When I'm home alone I just dance by myself
And you pull my head so close volume goes with the truth
Signing off 'I'm alright in bed but I'm better with a pen'
The kid was alright but it went to his head
Fall Out Boy
#57. Don't get me wrong. I love to be alone. When I am by myself, I get to create my own version of reality where I am the popular girl and really pretty, and friends can't wait to talk to me. -Madisyn
Tara Michener
#58. I have hardly had time to think over all that you have told me. It's a big thing for a man to have to understand and to decide at one sitting. I should like to have a quiet hour by myself to make up my mind.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#59. I don't want to raise a child by myself. I could do it. But I definitely don't want to. I want to be a mother who has the original father there.
Christina Applegate
#60. I love ghost stories but I can't really watch them, especially not by myself because then I can't sleep.
Laurie Holden
#61. I feel the sexiest when I'm by myself, walking around nude. I have this new obsession with nudity, it's really weird. It may sound weird, but I just really love embracing the body.
Ciara
#62. I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting ... around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent.
Charlie Daniels
#63. And there's blues in my bed, 'cause l'm sleepin' by myself.
Julio Cortazar
#64. I went to a restaurant and sat at the bar and ate by myself. I have my iPad, which is my favorite instrument of all time. I talked to a few people next to me. I'm just trying to be out. It's a little bit scary.
Teri Hatcher
#65. I am often very lonely up on this hill by myself, and when Mr. Poe wrote to me about your troubles I didn't want you to be as lonely as I was when I lost my dear Ike.
Lemony Snicket
#66. I'm going through a divorce now. This is the second one, and like baseball, I'm not gonna get three strikes. I've been living by myself for five years and I'm very comfortable. I can play my guitar when I want to.
Buddy Guy
#67. I grew up pretty much entertaining myself. So I know what its like to be in a room by myself and having fun with something.
Cheri Oteri
#68. I'm good at being by myself. I guess if you're a writer you get used to that.
Chuck Klosterman
#69. I spend an awful lot of time by myself and enjoy that.
James Nesbitt
#70. I am definitely someone who needs to take a second by myself and stretch and breathe before a show.
Jake Epstein
#71. For I chase but one hind, he says, one strange deer timid and wild, and she leads me off the paths that other men have trod, and by myself into the depths of the wood.
Hilary Mantel
#72. When I was learning by myself, despite my parents, despite my teachers, despite society, when I was fighting for building my life as a young wire walker at age 16, I didn't have feelings, I had certainties.
Philippe Petit
#73. When I give over to somebody's vision rather than have an idea of what I need to do, it takes me to places I wouldn't have got to by myself. I'm always attracted to a strong director.
Willem Dafoe
#74. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuit that does not readily let go.
Victor Hugo
#75. I'm bad on Valentine's Day, but even worse on Christmas. I go shopping at nine o'clock on December 24th every year. Nobody else is there. I'm in Toys'R'Us all by myself. I get there five minutes before closing.
Jamie Foxx
#76. I was trying to see if I could produce an episode - completely write it and research it and record it and edit it - all by myself in a week.
Karina Longworth
#77. I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#78. I absolutely adore baking with my nieces and nephews. It's super fun, and I love baking by myself, so what I like to do is have a cabinet for my baking essentials.
Khloe Kardashian
#79. I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus.
Don Zimmer
#80. I'm not the kind of person who sits off by myself and ignores everyone. I like to be happy!
Jenna Boyd
#81. When I was little, I spent a lot of time by myself. When other kids were in school, I was skiing and thinking about things. I was alone on the mountain.
Bode Miller
#82. Alien abduction movies are always the scariest; no matter how cheesy they are, they still scare me for a week. I live by myself in my apartment, and I don't worry about intruders or robbery; I mostly worry about alien abduction or evil, mean ghosts.
Claire Coffee
#83. I don't ask myself, "Well, does God exist or does God not exist?" I choose to believe that God exists, and therefore I can say, "God, I can't do this by myself. Help me not to take a drink today. Help me not to take a drug today." And that works fine for me.
Stephen King
#84. I was once all by myself in a house on Fire Island. Where I compared the original cast recordings of two different versions of The Wild Party. A helicopter should have descended and taken me away to a gay penal colony. But of course, I was already there.
Paul Rudnick
#85. Oftentimes, even as a little kid, I would get up before anyone else. My brother would still be sleeping, my mom would still be sleeping, so I would literally play 'Monopoly' by myself. I would play board games; I would do things by myself.
Will Ferrell
#86. I AM ALWAYS ALONE. BUT JUST NOW I WANT TO BE ALONE BY MYSELF.
Terry Pratchett
#87. And I know different methods of self-destruction but none as intense as sitting still by myself.
Sam Pink
#88. seen this look on his face before, and I knew exactly what "some time" meant: hours and hours. "Then I'll go find the house by myself," I said. "Not alone, you aren't. You promised." "Then I'll find a person who
Ransom Riggs
#89. Stayed awake on purpose until half past eleven one evening in order to have a good look at the moon for once by myself.
Anne Frank
#90. I love collaborating with people, but I also really love working by myself.
King Tuff
#91. By myself I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets.
C.S. Lewis
#92. It is very possible that I could have ended up on 80 acres of land by myself, and fallen in love at a distance with a gorgeous woman I could never have been with.
Peter Sarsgaard
#93. The very first music I recorded by myself, when I was 17, I said it was by King Tuff.
King Tuff
#94. I want to be as though new-born, knowing nothing, absolutely nothing ... then I want to do something modest; to work out by myself a tiny, formal motive, one that my pencil will be able to hold without technique.
Paul Klee
#95. My wife and I lived all alone,
contention was our only bone.
I fought with her, she fought with me,
and things went on right merrily.
But now I live here by myself
with hardly a damn thing on the shelf,
and pass my days with little cheer
since I have parted from my dear.
Robert Creeley
#96. Most people new to a city on the ocean would probably go to the beach during the day when there are people around. I, on the other hand, decided to try a midnight swim at the somewhat gamy Santa Monica pier, by myself. That is, until a nearby guard kicked me off the beach for my own safety.
Kathy Griffin
#97. I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.
Tom Stoppard
#98. I love very much the night after every fashion show when I have all those invitations to parties and I stay quiet at home by myself.
Gianni Versace
#99. As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee.
Bernard Barton
#100. I like to move around. I travel. I've driven across country by myself.
Joni Mitchell
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