Quotes About Solitude

I fought the idea of having security for a very long time, because I really value normalcy. I really do. I like to be able to take a drive by myself.

I think if you really start practicing, the energy comes. I was always very happy and grateful for the opportunity to have the time, solitude and good health to be able to do it.

Winter is the time of love and of taking the light within.

I really cherish having my private time and being alone and being able to decompress. It's my own version of meditating.

Sometimes you just have to be by yourself, you need a little space and time.

If we can't even spend a short amount of time each day with God in solitude, our spiritual formation will be seriously stunted.

in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.

I walk around a lot secretly. Even when I use a car, I park it briefly and walk. It seems that I still need some time alone to think and sort out things myself.

I don't have alot of people to talk to. Not alot of people are worth my time.

I am really an introvert, and I need that time alone for a variety of reasons.

I'm gladly doing my own thing for the time being.

Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.

I'm sorry but I've been on my own a long time. I don't know what to talk when I bump into other people.

I highly recommend time to yourself.

I went from the glamour of working with Karl Lagerfeld and John Galliano to living on an isolated hilltop, with my husband gone most of the time.

After a week of the contained chaos that is my job, I need some solitary running time. On Sundays, I can unwind and reconnect with the natural world.

I felt the kind of loneliness that can happen in a roomful of people when everyone but you seems to be in on the good time.

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

for many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put.

Most of the time, I don't watch classics with anybody. I have to be by myself. That's my classroom.

I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes.

I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating.

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.