Quotes About Solitude

After chatting happily to people all morning in my professional life, I prefer to spend quiet nights in, punctuated only by the occasional grunted demand for food from a passing teenager.

I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.

I have a Twitter profile, but I avoid red carpets and all that kind of stuff. I'd rather no one talk about me ever, and I just get to do my thing. I'm an introvert.

That's the way I started playing music: just playing guitar by myself in my room when I was a kid, and exploring the guitar and exploring the space I was in, with no project in mind.

I hibernate. I hibernate until the next project takes shape in my mind.

As an author, you spend a lot of time by yourself in a room making clicky noises. It gets pretty insulated. You realize pretty early on in your career that even if this goes well, you could spend all your life in a room alone. Unless you pick projects that are going to get you out doing things, you're not going to actually live your life.

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

I like nothing more than walking down a country lane or along a mountain path - it's not proof that there is anything bigger than ourselves, but I feel very much at peace.

The thing about awards is that a lot of those moments are about the whole world telling you that you deserve it and rah, rah, rah. I'm very appreciative of that, but I love experiencing stuff by myself. Because it feels different. You know the truth, and you can hear what the voice in your head is saying properly.

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

I was reading 'The Prophet' on my own when I was 10 years old.

I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.

I grew up in a forest. It's like a room. It's protected. Like a cathedral... it is a place between heaven and earth.

I'm fiercely protective of my privacy.

Who can protest alone? Who dares rise up? It is not easy. One is all alone, and evermore shall be so.

Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.

To the dear lone lands untroubled of men, Where no voice sounds, and amid the shadowy green The little things of the woodland live unseen.

Twould please me best to fight these Greeks alone.

Speak to me, wood pigeon. I need your voice.

He's alone, You're alone, that's more than enough to have in common. What else do you want?

Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.

Shadows are cool and peaceful places for those whose minds are overstocked with treasure.

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don't want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you're doing here. Believe in kissing.

Now we shall both be alone, and I shall have no way of making you understand.' 'I don't want to make it easier for you,' I said; 'I hope your heart may break; but I do understand.