“I should never be left alone with my mind for too long.”

—  Libba Bray

Last update Feb. 9, 2022. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "I should never be left alone with my mind for too long." by Libba Bray?
Libba Bray photo
Libba Bray 254
American teen writer 1964

Related quotes

Spider Robinson photo

“Five days of wireheading alone should have killed her, never mind sudden cold turkey.”

Spider Robinson (1948) Canadian author

God Is An Iron (1977)

Bob Dylan photo

“But all the while I was alone
The past was close behind,
I seen a lot of women
But she never escaped my mind”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Tangled Up In Blue

Christine de Pizan photo

“Alone am I, and alone I wish to be;
Alone my sweet love has left me.
Alone am I, without friend or mate,
Alone am I, mournful and angry.”

Christine de Pizan (1365–1430) Italian French late medieval author

Seulete suy et seulete vueil estre,
Seulete m'a mon doulz ami laissiée,
Seulete suy, sanz compaignon ne maistre,
Seulette suy, dolente et courrouciée.
Cent Balades, no. 11, line 1; Maurice Roy (ed.) Œuvres Poétiques de Christine de Pisan (1886) vol. 1, p. 12. Translation from Aliki Barnstone & Willis Barnstone (eds.) A Book of Women Poets from Antiquity to Now (1980) p. 203.

T.S. Eliot photo

“Artist should be left alone to paint or not to paint, write or not to write.”

A.R. Ammons (1926–2001) American poet

Paris Review interview (1996)

Anne Lamott photo

“My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist
W. Somerset Maugham photo

“I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.”

W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer

"1941", p. 336
A Writer's Notebook (1946)

Emily Brontë photo
Charles Bukowski photo

Related topics