Quotes About Solitude

I can honestly say [that writing] is the best life there is, because you get to live within the realm of your own mind, and that is a profoundly rare human privilege.

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be.

Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.

Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.

I lead an introverted and boring life here in California.

I am at a place in my life where the more like a cave I can make my surroundings, the happier I am.

One must withdraw for a time from life in order to set down that picture.

I don't mind gearing my life towards privacy. It's my nature.

My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.

I can feel it in my bones: I'm gonna spend my whole life alone.

My life style in a sense is kind of private.

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not.

We do not aspire to communal life but to a life apart.

I live a generally quiet life, as it were.

In life's most significant moments we are always alone.

I wanted to find a cave and hang out there for the rest of my life and be a cave painter and eat dirt.

I don't socialize. I'm kind of a hermit. The life of an actor can be very lonely.

One learns in life to keep silent and draw one's own confusions.

I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours.

Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.

The solitary Bee Whose buzzing was the only sound of life, Flew there on restless wing, Seeking in vain one blossom where to fix.

Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there. and everything else fell away.

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.