Quotes About Solitude

I always have been a private person. I like to be alone. When I was a little girl I used to listen to the radio and just be by myself.

When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.

Me writing 'Black Rainbow' was me alone in a windowless room going insane.

I never liked pep rallies. I found school spirit hard to deal with. I am much more oriented towards the individual.

When I was on the motorbike in the Dakar Rally I had a lot of time to think.

When I was in high school, I ran with the team, and I did a bit of running with friends and things. But as an adult, my favorite thing is to run by myself.

Small places intrigue me. Whenever I tried moving to a larger city, I ran back to the hills.

Now I live in the middle of nowhere on a working cattle ranch.

The truth of the matter is that I live on an isolated cattle ranch in the middle of Oklahoma and that's not going to change.

I would be happy living on a massive ranch in Montana and not seeing anyone except my friends and family.

I always thought I was going to end up an old spinster, with my cats and fur coats.

It's difficult to feel that people are looking at you in the street. I don't like the fuss.

You gain a level of fearlessness performing when no one's there to see you.

Everybody is their own galaxy, their own separate entity.

I spent hours playing in the garden on my own. I used to play cricket with myself. I never remember thinking, I wish I had a brother or sister. I had a lot of friends, and that was fine.

I just go in my back garden. It's the only place where people don't come and bother you.

I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs.

I've tried everywhere, but my garden shed is the most effective place to write.

I was a loner and would constantly find ways to drift away from crowd at social gatherings.

I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are times I'm lonely. But there are also many times when I need to be alone, when I don't want the feeling of someone else in the house other than the cats.

Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that.

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

A really good detective never gets married.

I like to be on my own before I do a gig.