Quotes About Solitude

It's not so much about killing an animal, it's being at peace and you don't have to worry about all the other things that go on. That's a couple of hours a week that you get to escape but it's nice to do that.

My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.

I only hear my own voice. When you start hearing other voices, then it's time to worry.

I want to do just minor, trivial stuff, things that I can do without worrying about the eyes of others.

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in.

I have quit chewing tobacco and don't touch any lager beer, and I don't speak to the girls at all. I am getting to be a perfect hermit; my fiddle, my dog, and my gun I almost worship.

In this part of the world, only Maine gives winter the welcome and the worship it should have.

The worst cruelty that can be inflicted on a human being is isolation.

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.

We had decided to totally disappear from the media, to not do any interviews and photo shoots. Tom and I just needed time to ourselves.

I spent a ton of time alone. I was raised by a feminist; I had a terrifying father and oppressively scary and mean brothers. We had a farm. The rule was between breakfast and lunch you weren't allowed to make a sound.

Your brain, like your tongue, is a muscle. Practicing thinking by yourself really helps develop your brain, which you need throughout your day. I like to practice my thinking in a darkened room, alone.

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon.

I was lonely driving here tonight so I hugged the road.

The fishing is a great relief for me. When I'm out there's no cell phone ringing. I'm out there fishing with bears. I'm in the middle of God's country catching tons of fish. I just absolutely love it.

I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.

You don't see too many people on a farm. I didn't grow up dealing with a lot of people.

To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.

I don't like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people.

I don't like going out. I hate clubs. I hate being around too many people. I love my home and staying in bed and watching 'Dancing With the Stars' or reading a Danielle Steel novel.

I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.