Quotes About Solitude

Maybe 'loner' is too strong a word, but I've always enjoyed being on my own.

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

I have no words for my reality.

I decline all noisy, wordy, confused, and personal controversies.

In my 30s, I wrote in the back house of a ramshackle Spanish Revival we rented across from the ocean in the Santa Monica Canyon. I wrote thousands of pages there, but in order to see another adult human being, I had to steal out through the brambly side of the house, along the driveway down to the street.

A room full of hundreds, let alone thousands, of people is not my most fun thing in the world.

I'm good at being on my own. As a kid, I was always in my room alone, so I have a high threshold for it. If I'm bored, I'll read. Hanging around doesn't go well with me.

Acting always affects every part of your life because it's such a solitary, lonely, and thrilling circumstance that you're taking on someone else's character and that responsibility. It's exhausting.

I'm not the kind of person who thrives in 'the scene.'

On the road, as a 'rock star,' there's superficial attention and adulation is thrown at you for a couple of hours - then you're alone in your room and it's lonely.

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

I am always able to find that solitude. I am always able to find that peace. Which is tight. That is what has helped me keep going.

I'll close my eyes really, really tight and make you all go away.

Sit alone for five minutes and see what your life would be like if you were absolutely alone in this world. If there were nobody or nothing to compare yourself with, what would you truly long for? What would really matter to you if there were no external appreciation or critique? If you do this every day, you will become aligned with the longings of the life that you are, rather than the accumulated karmic mess that you believe you are.

Now I would tell all those who wish to truly see the blossoms to cast off the world and live like me among the mountains

It was not for moon gazing I came into Mount Yoshino yet seeing it I grieve over the sad world

How I delight in this well-timed snow that buries the mountain path behind me as I enter intent on long seclusion

Since nowhere can be home let me live nowhere in this scant hut in this brief world

I long now to be alone in some far-off cave and think without thought of others' eyes on me

I might have been a goldfish in a glass bowl for all the privacy I got.

This was followed by a year of silence. Then he wrote to Maeda to say, "I discovered my own god.

it talks to your corpse with gentle words.

Running and meditation are very personal activities. Therefore they are lonely. This loneliness is one of their best qualities because it strengthens our incentive to motivate ourselves.