Quotes About Solitude

It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.

Winter is the time for study, you know, and the colder it is the more studious we are.

A man who has to go to the village to get the news hasn't heard from himself in a long time.

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!

Like a lot of inwardly drawn young people, I spent a lot of time in libraries. At my high school, I often spent my lunch breaks there.

It is in bed that we learn to bear the inevitable. We are learning this all the time while we lie with our face turned to the wall thinking we are doing nothing.

...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.

I spend so much time in my studio, which can be very dark, so it can begin to feel as if I'm a mole underground.

Living in my head isn't fun sometimes. A kajillion thoughts are there at any one time, and the only place I find peace is at the easel.

I'm going to be going to a secluded spot where no one can find me - NBC prime time.

Everyone traveling alone is just on their phones the whole time.

I don't have a girlfriend. No, I don't. I haven't had a relationship in years, actually. But yeah, I'm still looking. It's kind of nice to be looking for a home at the same time.

I spend a lot of time near water.

The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.

The time never lies heavy upon him; it is impossible for him to be alone.

Probably nothing serious or worthwhile can be accomplished without one's willingness to be alone for sustained periods of time, which is not to say that one must live alone, obsessively.

Riding the train gives him too much time to think, he has decided. Too much thinking can ruin you.

I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.

The most important thing you need to do [in this job] is to have big chunks of time during the day when all you're doing is thinking.

Today is just another day of trying to get by without you.

It was something he had always done - moved apart, so he could be alone and think things or a little.

I actually like spending time alone - it doesn't bother me at all.

There is a certain delightful sort of hope which the introvert can receive only by having company over...the hope that they will leave soon.

Sometimes life was like smoking in silence, without thinking where and when you are !