Quotes About Solitude

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.

I work more now because at this time of my life I am not disturbed from my aim by outside pressures such as family, passionate relationships, dealing with 'who am I?' - those complications when one is searching for one's self.

Wherever you are in the world, whoever you are with, sometimes you feel desperately lonely.

For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.

I get lonely - I'm not going to lie about that... I kind of signed up in my mind that I'm giving myself wholeheartedly, full-throttle to my creative life, and I don't want to be distracted.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.

Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

There hasn't been anyone with whom I can discuss my scripts. Even when the film is done, there is no one I can show it to who gives his sincere opinion. There is silence.

To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? to whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? the secret thoughts of my dearest friends? my own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody!

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

Why can't everybody leave everybody else the hell alone.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.

Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and delicious.

I don't particularly have a wide social circle.

I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.

It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else.