Quotes About Solitude

The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy.

At times, when I reach my saturation point, I go to some random place and throw my phone away.

Because I'm always with other people, I don't have private times and can't easily do what I really want to do. However, this is not necessarily so bad.

An ice-fishing shanty is basically a tin outhouse on a frozen lake, except that in an outhouse, the hole has a purpose. In ice fishing, the hole is what you stare at for hours, hoping that at some point you'll break the monotony by falling in.

As a child, I spent a lot of time alone. I used to sit in my closet with one cracker. I'd pretend that I was on the North Pole freezing to death, and I had to somehow survive on this one tiny cracker.

I'm so glad this is the last day of these thing, I get so tired of listening to my own voice.

People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.

I'm tired of being this solemn poet of the masses, the enigma shrouded in a mystery.

I live in solitude. I have need of solitude to do the next day's work. I can't be to parties where the noise tires me. I can't speak on the telephone. I must have complete calm.

We talk of communing with Nature, but 'tis with ourselves we commune... Nature furnishes the conditions - the solitude - and the soul furnishes the entertainment.

I don't have friends, to be honest.

I don't listen to music when I run; I like the quiet. It gives me time to think about my family, our businesses, the farm - there's not much I don't think about, to be honest.

I prefer to be out of the spotlight, to be honest. I've always been that kind of personality.

I don't like social media at all, to be honest.

To be honest, I don't think there's anything more exciting than an empty stadium. When you see it empty like that, all you see is possibility.

I kind of live under a rock, to be honest. I very much stay in my little film world.

It is tough to live by myself.

In order to survive, you have to be alone with yourself to regenerate the spirit.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

I want to be together with everyone else but stay lonely.

The only way I can cope is to lock myself in the bathroom and cry. Sometimes I sit there for hours and even eat my lunch sitting on the toilet floor. Anything to get peace and quiet.

I was sitting in the toilet and I was by myself. I was tired of playing with the roller, so I said I'd better write a book.

I didn't want to be known. People say, 'I didn't want to toil in obscurity.' I like toiling in obscurity.

I survived many a youth hostel bunk room reading Tolstoy by flashlight.