Quotes About Solitude

After I had a kid, I value every minute of time that I have alone and I don't take it for granted anymore.

I'm a bit of a caveman - I don't go out into the digital space very often. I lie facedown on the grass and count how many bugs I can find.

A year is a long time to live without the human contact of loved ones, fresh air, and gravity, to name a few.

I'm so boring. My idea of a great day is just to be home with absolutely nothing to do.

Maybe it's just my own chronic morbidity and melancholia, but I really do think about it a great deal and quite often in the small hours of the night when, it is said, the greatest numbers of people die.

I am an expert in loneliness and have wandered around a great deal.

The great thing about running is that you can get away to your own thoughts and get in a little bubble.

I am never bored, never short of anything to do and I don't even ever feel lonely. I am quite gregarious and I get out and about a lot, but sometimes it is just wonderful to be on your own.

Going off the grid is always good for me. It's the way that I've started books and finished books and gotten myself out of deadline dooms and things.

Why would you want to be be counseled in your grief? It's too private.

Burzum was never formed, as Burzum is no group, only Count Grishnackh of many colors.

I've never had friends, and I don't like to be around big groups of people.

When you grow up on an island, what matters is how you stand to the sea.

I have to sit alone in a room and be alone with my own thoughts. It always starts with an idea, and once the idea grows, I have a concept of what I want to say, and once I go out there and start feeling the energy, that concept grows and becomes whatever it is.

Sometimes, my manager is caught off guard by me talking to myself, so he'll start talking back to me.

I don't want anybody guarding me. I want to be free; I want to be left alone... I would like to go out there and have no one know me, but at the same time, it would bother me, y'know.

I keep to myself a lot, I guess.

I like the gym the best when it's mostly empty.

I read books more than I go out. As a matter of fact, I get a little concerned about some of my anti-social habits. I will choose a night with Somerset Maugham or Russell Banks over a crowded bar any day.

When I get some time off, I don't even want to see people half the time.

Travel is the art form available to Everyman. You sit in the coffee shop in a strange city and nobody knows who you are, or cares, and so you shed your checkered past and your motley credentials and you face the day unarmed ... And onward we go and some day in the distant future, we will stop and turn around in astonishment to see all the places we've been and the heroes we were.

IMPORTANT Book reading is a solitary and sedentary pursuit, and those who do are cautioned that a book should be used as an integral part of a well-rounded life, including a daily regimen of rigorous physical exercise, rewarding personal relationships, and sensible low-fat diet. A book should not be used a as a substitute or an excuse.

Be careful..you're all I've got left, to remind me who I really am.

I don't particularly want to meet anyone. I'm quite happy by myself. Or at least, I was, back home.