Quotes About Solitude

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

I have no curiosity. I'm an island boy.

I like to live in places that are kind of off in the cuts so people can't really find me even if they wanted to.

I'll go my way by myself, love is only a dance.

I sleep with my gun on my bedside table. I live alone; it is my protection and makes me feel safer.

When I'm sitting at my drafting table in my studio, I could really be anywhere.

I sleep with my gun on my bedside table. I live alone; it is my protection and makes me feel safer. I have had to pull it out a few times when I have heard noises at night, but I've never had to use it.

I'm not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what's on my bedside table rather than what's in my bed.

I read like an animal. I read under the covers, I read lying in the grass, I read at the dinner table. While other people were talking to me, I read.

In my opinion, it's better to be alone out there, having to decide on your tactics during the matches. I would prefer it if it was just me and my opponent having to solve the problems out there on the court.

Do not let Sunday be taken from you. If your soul has no Sunday, it becomes an orphan.

I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

I love putting on a candle, reading a book, and just taking a second for me.

Instead of taking the reader by the hand and running him down the hill, I want to lead him into a house of many rooms, and leave him alone in each of them.

Running is a basic ingredient for your health, just as much as eating and sleeping, but going out for a run by yourself and taking a moment to think also creates a certain peace.

Sometimes, taking a break and going somewhere else and, almost, for both parties, absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Taking time for yourself is crucial when you're surrounded by people all day.

I'm great at leaving. I am less talented at getting left, though I should be better, given how much it's happened.

Emily Dickinson has haunted my life - her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a crush on that spinster in white, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own.

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

I talk to myself, especially in the car.

I am not good at small talk. I will hide in a cupboard to avoid chitty-chat.

No talk show or game show for me, thanks.