Quotes About Solitude

She wondered whether the books she loved consoled her precisely because they were the manifestations of her own isolation.

When life sucks the hardest, you survive by finding someplace to sit still and clear your head. Breathe fresh air and lose yourself in life's simple pleasures.

One of the most difficult things he'd ever done was turn away and leave her standing in the shadows.

I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.

There is no way to ease the burden. The voyage leads on from harm to harm, A land of others and of silence.

Everyone has their moments of solitude, difficulties, and vulnerability.

Actually, performing is a lot like golf. You are alone, so vulnerable.

What did we do before we had cell phones and we just had to sit there and be vulnerable?

There are a lot of times when Jessica Jones is alone in her house, and there's no dialogue. She's rough around the edges, so getting to spend that time with her and see her be vulnerable and process the weight of her world is what makes the character so likable.

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.

I think there's something beautifully old fashioned about waiting all week then sitting down and watching something on television together. I'm generation box set, accustomed to binging on multiple episodes at a time, which is fun but quite a solitary pursuit because you do it alone.

I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.

Sometimes I wake up before dawn, and I love sitting up in the middle of the bed with all the lights off, pitch-black dark, and talking to the Father, with no interruptions and nothing that reminds me that there's anything in life but me and Him.

I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort.

I'm not one of those people who wake up chatting. I usually don't want to speak for the first 10 or 20 minutes. And I don't really want you to talk to me either!

I'm a huge believer in you don't really need anybody to make you feel validated or make you feel secure. When you go to sleep at night, you're with yourself, and when you wake up, you're with yourself. Be happy, just alone, regardless if you're with somebody or not.

Every person needs to go home and have that person to wake up to - eventually, when the party's over.

I love the sunrise, as I am definitely a morning person! It's a great time to get up and have a coffee in the garden by myself before everybody wakes up.

You've probably never thought about it before unless you happen to write for a living, but professional writers are doomed to spend most of their waking hours sitting by themselves at a desk, staring at a blank computer screen and waiting for lightning to strike.

I walk my dog at dawn because I don't like people to be around.

It's important for me that I'm able to walk around the city without being bothered all the time.

You can be in terrible shape, and if you take a three-hour walk through the forest and along the river, you're simply not the same as when you started out.

I am not a city guy; I like peaceful surroundings and maybe a walk around a lake.

One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.