Quotes About Solitude

Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.

I learned to basically pull my own weight, just do my own thing. I spent a lot of time alone and I loved it. It was actually really great because to the present day I love spending time alone. I go bicycling alone, go climbing alone and I just love being with myself and observing myself and learning something.

Being in the dark, there's a real weight to it. It's heavy.

The weight room has always been a place for me where I could go to be relaxed. It's my sanctuary of sorts.

That's really why I want to go to space - I want to be weightless for so long that it gets boring.

I'm a low-key guy. So I like going to places and not being known. So it's weird when people are saying, 'Oh, it's you.'

I'm someone who just likes being in my cave and thinking up weird stuff.

I don't listen to music. I know it's weird, and I have no explanation for that. But I never do.

My private life... Nobody should care. I think it's weird.

I definitely enjoy my time by myself - and that's kind of the weird thing about touring; you're kind of constantly surrounded by people - but I actually do enjoy going out and doing things and being around people.

The weird thing about me is that I'm naturally an introvert, so I don't talk to people.

When you feel totally alone in your thoughts and feelings, there's someone out there who is going through what you went through, even if it's the strangest, weirdest thing you could think of.

I like to go outside at night by myself and look at the sky and just appreciate it. I'm not that big of a weirdo, but - occasionally.

Also, painting and animation are really solitary pursuits, so the collaborative aspects of music making and acting are pretty welcome sometimes.

Being around lots of people drains me, and alone time is essential to my well-being.

Some of my best moments have been in friends' libraries. They give you a sense of quiet, well-being and order that a media room does not.

My father was the church organist; the village curate was my mother's brother, a former monk from the order of Pijar, a very well-educated and ascetic man who loved nothing but solitude.

Introversion, when embraced, is a wellspring of riches. It took me years to acknowledge this simple reality, to claim my home, and to value all it offers.

I watched the night unfold from beginning to end on my own here in my flat in Budapest where I've been working for the last six months, and when it was announced that Barack Obama was indeed president-elect, I wept.

Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.

I just like being on my own on trains, traveling. I spent all my pocket money travelling the London Underground and Southern Railway, what used to be the Western region, and in Europe as much as I could afford it. My parents used to think I was going places, but I wasn't, I was just travelling the trains.

I have always practiced by myself. It's just because that is when I can do the most work, the most efficient work, is when I am by myself, and I think I just find a little bit of peace when it comes to being able to be out here on the golf course, and you are just you and yourself and your thoughts.

I definitely have to pray and spend a lot of time by myself when I can.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.