Quotes About Solitude

Nor is it the least advantage to health, accruing from such a way of life, that it expose those who follow it to fewer temptations to vice, than persons who live in crowded society.

I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lot of my time reading. I've been working since I was 17, so that's sort of been my life.

I reside in a new colony for the Chinese-singing banjo player, with a population of one. At least I have something I have to do with my life.

Ah! Wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company.

I live a pretty anonymous life.

Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.

As a writer, you live in such isolation. It's hard to imagine your book has a life beyond you.

She liked the life she had. She loved habits. She craved a day with nothing in it, a long, quiet stretch of hours in the studio.

I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.

The songs came from a more solitary place and I hadn't played them with many people before recording. So I just added the layers of people who are in my life, and built up the songs.

As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string.

I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet.

Everyone lives the way she knows best. What I mean by 'their happiness' is living a life untouched as much as possible by the knowledge that we are really, all of us, alone. That's not a bad thing.

But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.

Everything about life makes me lonely.

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.

All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.

His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.

I want to keep my private life private.

When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.

I don't think I've had a lonely moment in my life.

But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.