Quotes About Solitude

I love my garden. I love my privacy. I'm very fierce about it. I try not to let too many people into my home. That's my private place.

I don't like people; I don't let too many people into my life.

I don't really like attention too much.

It's better for people to miss you than to have seen too much of you.

I don't like being able to be reached. I enjoy my solitude. Even people having my phone number seems like too much.

I spend... too much time... in my own head.

Much like anyone with too much time on his or her hands, I feel as though I am the most important person on earth and everything I do is relevant. I say the most charming and inspired things when no one is around.

It's very easy for a writer to spend much too much time in her head.

It took living alone for me to really get to know myself.

Being anonymous is a great luxury. It's a big loss to lose that. Mostly, the loss is the ability to observe others without being observed yourself. And as an actor, that is your key tool.

Silence can be a very powerful tool. Sometimes it's more powerful to leave you with nothing.

It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.

I like being near the top of a mountain. One can't get lost here.

Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs.

Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and at the end of it I came upon the Pocket Hunter making a dry camp in the friendly scrub.

At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

In the total darkness, poetry is still there, and it is there for you.

The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?

I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.

And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me.

I don't party. I'm a total homebody. I like hanging out with my cat, and I've actually been known to stay home and knit.

I've found I get big things done when I'm on airplanes or in hotel rooms. It's a total needle-mover to book a fantastic room in a place you adore and then put the 'do not disturb' on the phone and door for a week.

I'm a totally desert person.