Quotes About Solitude

I'm a very secretive person.

What did I owe the rest of the world? Nothing.

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

If you ever really want to get away from it all and see something that you have never seen, and have an excellent chance of seeing something no one has ever seen, get in a sub. You climb in, seal the hatch, turn on a little oxygen, turn on the scrubber, which removes the CO2 in the air you breathe, and they chuck you overboard. Down you go.

At some point, we have to move away from the pack to take certain journeys on our own.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

Being an actor all of my life is kind of a collaborative, social form of interpretive art. Sitting down with a blank page every day by yourself is a different feeling.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

As a painter, it seemed easier to sort of disappear.

An artist makes a painting, and nobody bugs him or her about it. It's just you and your painting. To me, that's the way it should be with film as well.

I think when you work alone - the way I do it, anyway - you could sort of liken it to painting, where there's sort of a one-on-one with the canvas.

The challenges I face in the studio pale in comparison to when I'm out in nature.

I don't know what the other celebrity's lives are like but I lead a true celebrity life. I get pampered. I'm always alone.

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

I'm happy when my name's not in the paper.

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

I don't go home to parades.

Your library is your paradise.

I loved the High Line when it was just mine, when I was the only person up there, and I had a private park in New York City. I had to make an appointment to see it... I'd walk around. I was all alone.

When I had my dogs, I used to spend a lot of time in Central Park, which is a great place to be alone among a lot of people.

I'm not gregarious. I spend a lot of time in the parks when it is fine. I do know almost every blade of grass.

We are all born alone and die alone. The loneliness is definitely part of the journey of life.

Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.