Quotes About Solitude

Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.

Nobody understands your life, but you.

The worst of prison life, he thought, was not being able to close his door.

In short, everything about his life was different for him at the bottom of that well.

I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

Not knowing how to feed the spirit, we try to muffle its demands in distraction...What matters is that one be for a time inwardly attentive.

In wilderness I sense the miracle of life.

My life is proof that I don't need you to do what I do. If there's no one to see it, I'll watch it.

I find there is a quality to being alone that is incredibly precious. Life rushes back into the void, richer, more vivid, fuller than before.

I've been such an outsider my whole life.

Each life needs its own quiet place.

She knows there's more to life, and she's scared of ending up alone

I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.

The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.

It should surprise no one that the life of the writer - such as it is - is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

I am not reclusive. I just have a private life.

In life, periods of solitude were blessings. Dying alone was a bitter curse.

The most interesting part of my life is of no concern to the public.

Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.

Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

In water, like in books—you can leave your life.