Quotes About Solitude

When I came on in '68, I was really the lone wolf.

I'm more of the lone wolf.

I identify with my womanhood before anything else because that's what I deal with when I am alone.

Whatever you read, there's no better place to read than the cockpit or the berth of a boat. It's kind of like being in a womb.

When friends and lovers die and your world gets quieter; that's when the silence comes closer; that's when next isn't the least bit theoretical or abstract.

I personally think that's incredibly therapeutic to just be alone in your own thoughts and not be freaking out.

I like to have a massage therapist come to my house, get a massage, take a bath, go to bed. That's a perfect night alone for me.

Fishing is my therapy. Its such a great immersion into life.

Ever since I gave up therapy, it's my only time with a captive audience.

There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin my solitude, makes me more peaceful than I am during the day.

One thing that somebody told me is that leadership is a lonely role - some people can do it, and some people can't.

Frightening things happen in solitude.

Extraordinary things happen in solitude.

When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

When I was in lower school, I graduated from fourth grade, and the principal gave us a summer assignment to take a 30-minute reflection period every day. And, of course, there were no cell phones at the time. She said to just think. And that's lost. It doesn't exist anymore. Just imagine being on a couch and just thinking.

Everyone thinks I live alone, but I don't. My characters all live with me.

You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.

There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I've gone to draw inspiration and write many of my books.

I'm just about to move to a place that you can only get there by rowing a boat across a loch, which I'm thoroughly looking forward to it. It's not got electricity or anything.

I live right in the middle of nowhere and I thoroughly enjoy it.

African-Americans assume I'm named after the notorious Soledad prison or Mount Soledad in California. Latinos want to know if I'm lonely. That doesn't fit, because I grew up with five siblings, and I have four kids of my own, so I'm not lonely at all, though I do often seek solitude, the actual meaning of my name.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.