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Quotes About Solitude

A lot of acting is private time.
~ Al Pacino
Make a little time to be quiet by yourself every day and just be.
~ Bear Grylls
I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.
~ Pramoedya Ananta Toer
I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.
~ Johnny Cash
Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.
~ Jeff Buckley
Lord, my body has been a good friend But I won't need it when I reach the end Miles from nowhere, Guess I'll take my time Oh yeah, to reach there
~ Cat Stevens
You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.
~ John Lennon
Share yourself with others after you have first spent some time with yourself.
~ Angel Olsen
Every man needs to find a peak, a mountain top or a remote island of his own choosing that he reaches under his own power alone in his own good time.
~ Alain Gerbault
I must secure more time for private devotions. I have been living far too public for me. The shortening of devotions starves the soul, it grows lean and faint. I have been keeping too late hours.
~ William Wilberforce
You should have some time to think and that's very important.
~ Ahmed H. Zewail
Let's sink another drink, cause it will give me time to think.
~ Billy Idol
The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.
~ Carson McCullers
I spend so much time living by myself - mostly in hotels - and I pick up cats when I'm feeling particularly lonely.
~ Penelope Cruz
Every time I'm in the woods, i feel like I'm in church.
~ Pete Seeger
Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.
~ Oprah Winfrey
For the first time, I lived alone... in a luxury apartment on Sunset Strip. For a few days I loved the idea, but I got lonely and restless.
~ Patty Duke
What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.
~ David Guterson
I think it's good to have the alone time. Well, I kind of have to, because I have to be alone in order to work, so I have alone time. And then I go on tour and I have being-around-people time.
~ David Sedaris
When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.
~ Meg Cabot
Therefore, whether the desire for prayer is on you or not, get to your closet at the set time; shut yourself in with God; wait upon Him; seek His face; realize Him; pray.
~ Robert Forman Horton
I am a pretty crazy person, so it's best for me to be on my own most of the time.
~ Henry Rollins
From the time I was a little kid, I was always shy. Performing was when I was outgoing. So I guess I am a loner. I get claustrophobia if a lot of people are around.
~ Johnny Carson
My shadow serves as the friend I crave.
~ Anna Akhmatova