Quotes About Solitude

The very pointlessness of a sea walk is it's attractiveness to me.

Girls' strength lies in its diversity, and its members have walked in a lot of borrowed shoes to make it that way. 'Solitude' is a bold and sweet example of inspiration trumping originality.

I longed from a tiny child to get away on my own. When I was five, I walked out along the sands from Redcar, nearly all the way to Hartlepool.

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

I often talk to myself while walking down the street. I did it as a kid.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

Ever see a little kid walking around talking to himself? I'm the same way.

I like going out to have street food without being disturbed. I like taking walks, but it's been so long since I've been able to do that. I miss feeling what I want to feel and walking around freely in crowded places.

When I'm not doing readings, I just spend a lot of time alone and try to meditate. Going for walks in nature is also really good for me. It's a way to center myself without having people around, because my ability is less of an on-off switch. It's more like a radio volume dial, so I always have background music in my head.

I always go for walks in the countryside.

I just find P.J. Harvey so mesmerising to watch because she remains unfathomable. She is the kind of woman who makes you rue the day you weren't born her. She always seems to be the cat that walks alone, and you don't feel you are supposed to know her.

I've found that I do some of my best thinking during our early morning walks - those few hours after the garbage trucks have gone and before the coffee shops open when Manhattan is as asleep as it ever will be. For that one hour each morning, I'm focused on the now.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

I hit a brick wall one day, and I spent a lot of time by myself learning about me and who I am and what I want and don't want.

I don't really have a best friend.

I do my best work alone. I travel alone a lot.

You are so much better off on your own than with the wrong person.

I'm not a big family person. I'm more of a loner.

The biggest challenge is the fight you have on your own.

Everything feels different on Christmas morning because there's nobody about. And if they are, then they're on a new bike.

I used to like to make myself sad, so I would listen to Bill Callahan as Smog.