Quotes About Solitude

I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.

Human warmth is perhaps the most lacking in a composer who lives his life in a recording studio.

I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.

Words as to the inner emotions do not come readily to me, for I have led an isolated life mentally and spiritually.

The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.

The idea of the walls of monastery was to keep everybody else out because you wanted to develop a certain type of life. Most people in the world had different ideas on the subject.

Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.

Life will be simpler when I don't spend two-thirds of the year in the middle of the Pacific.

Ive been more single than not in my short life.

I go to the river from time to time to ponder over the crazy days in my life. Watch the river flow, ease my mind and soul where I go.

I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn't weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.

That's why; he's worried about how his life is turning out, and he's lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all

I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and play characters.

There was no one to call me to bed, no one to demand that the rhythms of my life operate in a duet.

Most of my life I have needed more time to be on my own.

Standing facing the door in an elevator and pretending you're the only person there, no matter how crowded it is.

He has learned that God uses solitude to teach us how to live with other people.

He is also a victim of some injustice; he usually tries to be alone, in order to show his pain to others.

If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you.

So long as you are secure you will count many friends; if your life becomes clouded you will be alone.

He sleeps fastest who sleeps alone.

I want some time without you organic life forms.

It's funny how bed and pillows and covers can change a conversation. Words turn quiet and you mean more and say less. It's like you can build your own little world, Population: 2.

I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush.