Quotes About Solitude

Benches and books have things in common beyond the fact that they're generally to do with sitting. Both are forms of public privacy, intimate spaces widely shared.

Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet stands on a tombstone.

After the abrupt death of my mother, Jane, on Sept. 5, 1991, of a disease called amyloidosis, my dad took up golf at 57. He and my mother had always played tennis - a couples' game of mixed doubles and tennis bracelets and Love-Love. But in mourning, Dad turned Job-like to golf, a game of frustration and golf widows and solitary hours on the range.

Marvin's Motivational Moments actually started as something that was actually therapeutic for me. I would sit up late at night after my wife passed trying to adjust to being alone.

My wife and I sold our house in L.A. and we moved out to the high desert in California, by Joshua Tree, and we're out in the middle of nowhere.

My wife sent her photograph to the lonely hearts club. They sent it back, said they weren't that lonely.

The biggest problem I have doing my acting is having to interact with other people. I think if it wasn't for my wife and my kids, I'd probably be a hermit.

I now walk into the wild.

A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book.

It's beautiful being out in the wild.

I had a wild imagination as a kid - wild! - and I was outside all the time, swinging around in trees by myself.

Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don't forget what it means to be social.

When you are living alone then you tend to take life casually.

I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.

On the whole, I tend not to listen to my peers.

For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at times. I know it's a problem when my husband sends the dog in to retrieve me.

Working in film tends to isolate actors - it's your close-up; it's all about you.

Dance music tends to be a solitary affair.

Cities produce in me melancholy or a tension I don't need.

I have a very different fear if I'm all alone in the summit area of Mount Everest and if I know that there is nothing below me, no Sherpa, no tent, no rope.

I'd rather be in a tent than in a house.

My bed is my weird little haven. It's like a deflated tent.

For two summers, I lived up on the Eiger for close to 40 days. It was in a tent under this overhang near the start of Deep Blue Sea. I would drink the water that dripped from the ceiling.

I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.