Quotes About Solitude

I am a very reclusive, private person.

People have all sorts of expectations which you can't meet. Me, I'm so reclusive I stay away from such things as much as I can. I never go anywhere.

I am such a reclusive person that, literally, when I am done shooting, at some level I sort of disassociate myself, and I get back to reading my books.

I'm a very private, very reclusive kind of guy.

I become absolutely reclusive when I'm not working, to the point where I question whether I can actually do it again.

I am just a quiet reclusive person who has managed to hang around for a while.

I like my privacy. I was completely okay when people didn't recognise me.

My idea of a great holiday is not to go out. It's to find somewhere where I'm not confronted by people coming up to me and saying, 'You're Art Malik, aren't you?' It's quite nice sometimes not to be recognised.

I'm not someone who enjoys being recognised too much.

I've never liked the recognition, the questions, the publicity. I have often felt like running away and hiding.

I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

I'm a pretty private person, so I don't mind not being recognized.

I like to lay low. I like to hang back. I like to be the person that's not really recognized.

At 18, I took a Greyhound bus to New York City, and then I was in city after city, so I was just dying to get to the country. Everywhere I'd go, I'd just shoot out to a national park somewhere and reconnect.

I like to stay home and listen to recordings.

I find making records by myself incredibly boring.

The only recreation there allowed, however, is that of the mind, and of this there is but little.

Children already ignore others and take time on their own, and I think that is something adults should refer back to as they deal with the everyday hustle of the world.

I liked to be in my own company, so when I came home from school, I'd just go up to my room and hang out by myself. I wouldn't really have friends over or go to see friends much.

I really enjoy just hanging out at my house since I never get to be there.

The problem is to find the time to write. That's why I go to sea. I couldn't be happier than when at sea.

I'm happiest when I'm hanging out at home or in my room.

You have to remember that I'm a guy who is happiest in a dark room just thinking.