Quotes About Solitude

I am like a moon that shines on an immense, unknown sea where ships never pass

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.

An ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which is is possible to be happy.

The first six years I was kept totally alone. The last six years I had two people staying in the house. The first six years really trained me very well.

I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.

Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. Yet you are still in great company - the Numen and your Genius with all their media, and your host of elementals and ghosts of your dead loves — are there! They need no light by which to see, no words to speak, no motive to enact except through your own purely formed desire.

In our solitariness... great depths are sometimes sounded. Truth hideth in company.

At that time of ecstasy there is no thought of others; there is NO THOUGHT. Thither I go and none may lead.

In this quiet place on a quiet street where no one ever finds us gently, lovingly, freedom gives back our pain. --from poem In a Quiet Place on a Quiet Street

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

How do I live without the ones I love? Time still turns the pages of the book its burned. Place and time always on my mind. I have so much to say but your so far away.

Child's creativity – indeed, the human faculty of imagination – presupposes a capacity to be alone, which itself can arise only out of basic confidence in the care of a loved one.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

Imagine you are walking down a leafy path…The sun is receding, and you are walking alone, caressed by the breezy light of the late afternoon. Then suddenly, you feel a large drop on your right arm. Is it raining? You look up. The sky is still deceptively sunny…seconds later another drop. Then, with the sun still perched in the sky, you are drenched in a shower of rain. This is how memories invade me, abruptly and unexpectedly…

I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.

i wonder what goes on night and day beneath the surface of a cemetery.

When you listen to records like 'Foreclosure,' that's like me sitting in a room by myself just rapping about things that's running across my mind and things that have been bothering me.

I'm the sort of person who would be perfectly happy spending an entire day in a rare books room.

Often I sit in the lawn and have my morning cuppa amidst the twittering of rare birds.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

It's like breathing in and out to me. It's like having a conversation with someone who isn't there. Because it has to be addressed to somebody - not a particular person, or very rarely.

When you work in television, it's an isolating experience. You rarely ever get to watch it with an audience.

I live an isolated life, and I rarely meet others.