Quotes About Solitude

Aeroplane journeys give me quiet time to read and sleep; it's like being unplugged from the earth.

I live in a neighborhood that's very family-oriented, so I feel like everyone else is sleeping and I'm sitting up, making music. It's just me. It's a nice time to be creative.

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

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

I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

Time is the deepest wilderness in which we wander.

I can't afford to spend my time with anyone - there's only enough left for myself

Gee, I wish I had spent more time alone with my computer.

There is a time, when passing through a light, that you walk in your own shadow.

I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?

Every time I stepped into madness of the crowds, I longed for the wisdom of the loneliness.

Autumn is no time to lie alone

Humans who spend time in the wilderness, alone, without man-made mechanical noise around them, often discover that their brain begins to recover its ability to discern things.

For a long time now my heart has had its shutters closed, its steps deserted, formerly a tumultuous hotel, but now empty and echoing like a great empty tomb.

We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.

Allow regular time for silent reflection. Turn inward and digest what has happened. Let the senses rest and grow still.

People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.

Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward, via print, for a way out of loneliness.

It's how I fill the time when nothing's happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.

Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation.

The right to happiness is fundamental; men live so little time and die alone.