Quotes About Solitude

You grieve in loneliness, and if I understand you fuck in loneliness.

The liar has many friends, and leads an existence of great loneliness.

If I'm lonely it's with the rowboat ice-fast on the shore in the last red light of the year that knows what it is, that knows it's neither ice nor mud nor winter light but wood, with a gift for burning

Those years you never looked at any of us. Staring into your own eyelids. Like you saw a light there. Can you see me now?

Who neither touched nor spoke? whose nape, whose finger-ends nervelessly lied the hours away?

I have to learn alone to turn my body without force in the deep element.

Whereever a poet is born enduring depends on the frailest of chances: Who listened to your murmuring over your little rubbish who let you be who gave you the books who let you know you were not alone

We cut the wires, find ourselves in free-fall, as if our true home were the undimensional solitudes, the rift in the Great Nebula.

Marriage is lonelier than solitude

There aren't any people aligned with me passionately.

Writing is a sufficiently lonely and mysterious pastime that I don't begrudge myself a talisman or two, so long as they don't become ways of distracting myself from the glum inescapability of actual work.

Am I not peaceful? We want to be free - completely free. Free to be free. We want to be left alone.

I now go to my dad's grave to read scripts and learn lines. It's the most peaceful place. I go to see him, and it's fantastic.

Arizona - I've only spent a few days there, but it's inspired me the most. It's so peaceful.

I want to create a life that is just healthy and peaceful - an enclave, really, of retreat. It's not helpful for the big picture. It's totally selfish to run away like that.

I really like walking through Brompton Cemetery. It's really peaceful.

On all the peaks lies peace.

People say you've got to be OK with your own company, but tell me why?

Ever since I left Northern Ireland, I've always been pretty comfortable on my own, which contradicts a lot of people's perceptions of me.

I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated.

My desk faces the water, and I'm perfectly happy sitting there. I'm never lonely.

I remember going out alone in a canoe. Somebody told me to lie in the bottom of the canoe and just drift. It was a small lake and I was perfectly safe. So I did that, and I drifted. It was quiet and peaceful. Suddenly, I heard a loon cry the first time I ever heard that marvelous sound.

When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert.

By nature, a woman is independent though she can have bindings. But, she is a lone performer.