Quotes About Solitude

I have built my life to pursue the new. I don't have family, don't know many people and I am usually ready to leave within an hour.

I had drawn away into the salt, myself, a shell emptied of life.

Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.

I think I can lead a pretty anonymous life, yeah.

If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking, I confess, but it is the seminal part of my life.

As I look back, I see that life is like a game of solitaire and every once in a while there is a move.

Janet Erskine Stuart

This was the life I was going to be living, everybody separated from everybody else, hanging on for a moment only to be washed away.

Yet there are some resting-places, / Life's untroubled interludes; / Times when neither past nor future / On the soul's deep calm intrudes.

The rumble of the life outside was like the sound of the sea which was rising gradually around her.

I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our where everybody else stops and you begins.

Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

Coffee is one of the special things I have, instead of a social life.

I live a very secluded life, a very contemplative life and a very meditative one. That is my ideal life.

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

Alone.Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.

I was like a turd that drew flies instead of like a flower that butterflies and bees desired. I wanted to live alone, I felt best being alone, cleaner, , ,

We're all in this together - by ourselves.

I have no dating life.

I must study alone, as I am condemned to do every thing alone, I believe, in this life.

You'll notice you don't have both feet on the ground when you don't have any friends around

A lonely soul is the best friend of itself