Quotes About Solitude

There is nothing - nothing - that beats being in the jungles. It's so easy to just sit and meditate there.

The only two places where I can read for long stretches are in airplanes and in bed at nighttime.

I get up early. I like to read a little before anyone but the dog is up. I also like to read at night, not in bed but just before I go to bed.

I used to be locked up in my bedroom for hours, just listening to music, making some of my own, doodling and writing poetry.

It feels really sad, to me, to go to a dark bedroom. It's like surrendering to the night or something.

Growing up, I always wanted a bedroom of my own.

It's not easy living alone but I've done it before.

I don't like people seeing how I behave, walk, eat, and stay.

I do say all I've ever written about is being alone. And most people take that as, 'Oh, that's so sad.' And I always say, 'No. No, all I ever write about is being alone, and sometimes that's a beautiful, beautiful thing.'

I love being on the road with others, with a camera, but also being alone writing poetry.

For me, it's always been draining to be around people for too long because I'm naturally a pretty expressionless person. From an early age, I found being alone incredibly liberating.

We can all understand that feeling of being alone in the world trying to find ways to not be alone.

Sure, there are times when I'd like to have someone romantically in my life, but then I think about my life as a whole and realize I'm generally happy being alone.

I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.

I played a lot of dress-up in my room. I really liked being alone. I had a lot of friends, but I had an only-child, live-in-my-head personality.

I love playing music with people, but I also just love the art and meditation of being alone and working on stuff.

I love being alone.

After all these years, being alone, creating your art and finding your way, finding the path I wanted to take, writing the songs, being more comfortable and confident in what I do, it's been actually an incredible joyride.

I'm such a team player, and I love being in a group setting. You're used to looking to your left and right and someone being there. When you're out there on your own, you're like, 'Oh, boy.'

I had never thought of settling down. I had started believing I was always going to live alone. Marriage was the last thing on my agenda.

He needed his solitude at times, but he wasn't a hermit. He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up company for the times when he knew nobody would be around.

Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his own soul.

he was ready, perhaps, to shed a little of the armor he wore around his heart, that upon returning to civilization, he intended to abandon the life of a solitary vagabond, stop running so hard from intimacy, and become a member of the human community.

Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up company for the times when he knew nobody would be around