Quotes About Solitude

If you can only be happy with other people - and not alone - you are not a very happy person

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy.

And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him.

You don't always have to be the winner, have everybody notice you. It's fun to dance alone sometimes.

Only when you are by yourself can you realize how wonderful you are.

Most of us have a "Do Not Disturb" sign around our necks.

An empty day, though clear and bright, Is just as dark as any night.

Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

Isolation is a gift. Everything else is just a test of your endurance. You will be alone with the Gods. Your nights will flame with fire.

Realness often stands alone but painfully just.© TyLeishia Douglass 2012 All Rights Reserved

To all the defiant stoics, laughing and fighting lonesome battles in the face of adversity.

Saul was hunched over his drink like it was a small fire.

We might miss the days of being unreachable.

I need time every day to think.

... you're never alone if you've got a book for company.

Only a true reader will understand how lovely it is to read a book on rainy days.

For every writer, there is a challenge of time that is only magnified in the solitude of the work.

Be open minded to the empowering nature of being alone.

Sometimes the stage terrifies me, " I confessed. "But being here alone like this, it's freeing."Solitude can be freeing, " he said.

Don't depend on anyone as your own shadow leaves you in darkness.

When you are in need, you are all alone indeed!

A friend won't always be there, at times you are on your own, but alone you still may find light.