Quotes About Solitude

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in that isolation from life.

There was neither horizon, cloud, nor sound; of that pink, spread silence even I had become part, belonging as much to sky as to earth.

I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I'm in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

I don't even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch television. I don't do anything.

Maybe because I have spent too much of my life in rock clubs. I don't really go to parties anymore either. I'll usually be in the bus by 11:30 after a show.

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.

My version of Superman is essentially of a guy who has spent his whole life alone.

Winter is a time for going inward. For tending to the unseen.

Spend time in silence. Take time to get to know yourself and your genius in stillness.

Isolation offered its own form of companionship

And wasn't it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself on the subway was the best part of the day? Wasn't it terrible that after all the work one put into finding a person to spend one's life with, after making a family with that person, even in spite of missing that person...that solitude was what one relished the most, the only thing that, even in fleeting, diminished doses, kept one sane?

I heard the distant whistle of a passing train, and I wished I could get on it and go far away, to a place without struggle meetings, without class status, without confessions.

My only relief is to sleep. When I'm sleeping, I'm not sad, I'm not angry, I'm not lonely, I'm nothing.

He was intelligent and he must have known that he would again be the only man in those lights with real bruises.

Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side.

Son. Everyone dies alone. That's what it is. It's a door. It's one person wide. When you go through it, you do it alone. But it doesn't mean you've got to be alone before you go through the door. And believe me, you aren't alone on the other side.

I closed my eyes, feeling the tug of the books. This was my refuge, my fortress of solitude. Standing in this quiet cave, surrounded by walls of books, was normally enough to ease my mind no matter how stressful things got . . . but not today. Today the books called to me. Every one was a gateway to magic, waiting to be unlocked.

I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.

For the most sensitive among us, the noise can be too much.

Solitude is dangerous. It's very addictive. It becomes a habit after you realise how peaceful and calm it is. It's like you don't want to deal with people anymore because they drain your energy." – Jim Carrey

There's solace in the thought that I will never finish missing her.

These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.