Quotes About Solitude

The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.

I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.

It's hard being quiet when one's imagination is so loud

I existed in a cocoon, wrapped in daydreams. It's dangerous to be too much alone with an imagination.

My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk

I live in my own head and it all makes sense to me.

To make a prairie it takes clover and one bee one clover and a bee and revery The revery alone will do if bees are few.

There's an independence to surfing, it's just you and the ocean. There aren't a bunch of rules.

There are worse places to be than on your own.

Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent." Bill Clinton "The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

How foolish to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

Ah, monsieur, to live in the bosom of the sea! Only there can independence be found! There I recognize no master! There I am free!

I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.

I would soar like a bird, solitary, unmated, but untrammeled.

When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.

The Phoenix rises in the absence or need of witness.

I once asked her if she got bored living alone, and she said, 'To say one is bored to be alone is to admit that one has no inner resources.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.

I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension and think about what's going to happen next.

I'm better off not socializing. I make a better impression if I'm not around.