Quotes About Solitude

I also like a lot of silence, and when you're touring, it's constantly noise, all the time, you're surrounded with 15 or 20 people the entire time. I find that tough.

Books. I'd probably spend all my time alone and lost in books if I could. It's easier that way.

Even though I get a lot done with my solitude, and I make the best use of it possible, I always think solitude is an interlude in a period of time, which is populated by others.

I spent most of my time talking to God more than to people.

I have come to the conclusion that silence and time are the most precious commodities.

Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.

I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.

So long as I could write things down I could give up talking for a VERY long time.

I relish the time I have when there are no interruptions. Most often the best time for writing is late at night.

Spend time alone in areas of low population density, where you can feel the stillness. Go out into the desert or up into the mountains or to the ocean where there aren't too many people.

You don't need to be recluse and stay away from people. But you have to set aside a lot of time for stillness. That is the only place there is real fulfillment. You need to slow it down.

You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

I haven't have fun for a long time," Kaia said with a pout. "Me, either. Except with myself, but I don't suppose that counts." "It does the way I do it.

No-one knows what I do in my private, spare time, so I don't see why anyone would assume I'm celibate or somehow turning into a Garboesque character.

I spend a lot of time alone and my wife understands that I need to be alone. I enjoy being alone. But I'm never lonely.

Sometimes travelling really intensely for a long time is like having a continuous nervous breakdown.

Too much down time makes us miss home.

Silence is not lost time.

I am not a huge fan of being around people all the time. I really like being able to leave people.

Time moves in it special way in the middle of the night.

The way I spend my time is very isolated and cut off.

Solitude, community, and ministry are certainly not just for celibates! Celibates also have a hard time keeping up.