Quotes About Solitude

I'm going to live in the woods one day. Hunt, be weird, not have to listen to people call me a psycho all the time.

I like to be out and about in the woods, in the quiet absorbing our amazing open spaces.

I actually really like being in the woods.

I've always loved the woods, and I've always loved gardening and a lot of solitude and quiet.

I think probably one of the important things that happened to me was growing up in Idaho in the mountains, in the woods, and having a very strong presence of the wilderness around me. That never felt like emptiness. It always felt like presence.

The woods are a place where children can go to think. Children gravitate towards these spaces. When I was a child it was nothing more than a scrubby little overhang under a rhododendron bush, but it was incredibly important to me.

When I finish a book, I get extremely restless; I have to aggressively find ways to occupy myself; going off into the woods alone, doing things that are physically or mentally demanding to keep myself busy until the next big idea comes.

Living here where I live, on a farm way out in the countryside, in the woods, in fact, I have plenty of time to be alone, and I like it. I always have. I like my own company. And I am not the only one who feels this way; a high percentage of the Norwegian population feel as I do.

Being in the woods at night is a beautiful thing.

A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods.

I grew up in the Seattle suburbs - the suburbs of suburbs. Where I'm from, it's super quiet, just woods and nothing.

I live in the woods, so really the only way you can get to me is if you send a letter.

I'm certainly no hardcore backpacker, but I do enjoy being out in the woods for a few hours.

I joke that I'm in the market for a cabin in the woods, and, at some point, I won't be joking anymore.

I have my mountain man moments like hiking in the woods.

I grew up in Michigan. I feel like a lot of my childhood was in solitude, in the woods or making tree forts.

Sometimes, I would like to be alone in the woods and run and roll on the ground and play with my kids. And I do, and that's what keeps me grounded.

I'm not like a total recluse who lives in the woods or anything.

I prefer to live in the country where it's quiet. Woody Allen movies there are dubbed into Italian.

Begin each day with private reading of the Word and prayer.

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

Widow. The word consumes itself.

I would never call myself mysterious. The word I use is 'private.'

I am the dictionary meaning of the word introvert.