Quotes About Solitude

Those seven years in the cloister were the key to my life.

We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

I've always been a private person and I've always valued my private life.

I've never had a very great public life.

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.

No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

Life is so crowded with every day. It takes great effort to step aside and just watch and think.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.

I said nothing. I'm good at saying nothing. I don't like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.

Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.

I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV.

Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.

I'm a very private person. My life story isn't for everybody.

I want to get a farm where I am going to live for the rest of my life. I like the idea of a secluded place.

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who have understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks,-who had a genius, so to speak, for sauntering.

When you walk on the beach at night, you can say things you can't say in real life.

Far from the world I walk, and from all care.

And again she felt alone in the presence of her old antagonist, life.

To become a painter or a sculptor or a graphic designer is quite an isolated way to spend your life.

Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be.

I was trying to put myself in the situation of someone that was going through major loss. Losing someone to death or sickness, and having to go through life on your own afterwords.

I don't think anyone would care about my private life because I don't do anything. I'm at home with my dog.