Quotes About Solitude

I'm not one for a public display of my life.

What I need in order to stay creative and centered is a certain amount of distance from the maddening crowd. You cease to be your best self if you're running too fast.

I just started going into my room and literally going into my closet and singing into the clothes. Yeah, the Griffin are a really big family, and so I was trying to just sort of get to sing and experiment without bugging a lot of people.

When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.

Every three days on average, I am alone on stage, facing the public.

I'm a loner, so independent it's awful. It's one of the main reasons for the failures of my marriages.

I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in.

Fame doesn't end loneliness.

I don't have that many family and friends.

Mostly, I'm totally happy in my own space at home with the door closed with my family and friends.

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.

The lyrics of 'Ekla Akash' brought tears to my eyes.

When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away from other people, and my writing sucked. Now I have a laptop; I can do the most tedious part of my job in a public place.

One thing any backpacker will tell you is that it's tedious and monotonous. You're bored sometimes, so you really have to make the fun in your head.

That can be the most painstaking aspect of being a teen, figuring out what the world really looks like. If you find someone in a book, you know you're not alone and that's what's so comforting about books.

I was an incredibly lonely, very alienated teenager.

I was not a rebellious teenager. I was a sit-in-your-room teenager.

I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.

I think to be a writer, you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always drawn to characters in books and films who were at the fringes.

The teenager's room is her cave. It is here she can meet herself, undistracted by the new hassles life is making for her. Here, she can reflect.

I was a very isolated teenager.

I was always fond of books right since my childhood days. Even as a teenager, books were my company. Not that I did not have friends, but books kept my occupied most of the time.

This quarantine life is not new to me. I've been like this from my teens.