Quotes About Solitude

he needed the woods. When he was away from these trees for too long, he felt as though he was suffocating, as though his lungs were ready to completely shut down.

Grief can be inordinately selfish.

I stayed locked inside a windowless environment, sickened by the lack of sunshine like some dour owl.

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

I allow no one to touch me.

When you're on set, you're constantly surrounded by people - talking to people, being touched by people. So I like to just spend time with myself.

In California, you can stretch your arms out and not be touching another person. You get space, sun and, in general, dignity.

You can't write an image, a metaphor, a story, a phrase, without leaning a little further into the shared world, without recognizing that your supposed solitude is at every point of its perimeter touching some other.

Living by myself out in Malibu has been really good. I kind of have my freedom; I've got a whole house to myself. The tough part comes when sometimes, you know, you get pretty lonely.

It's bloody tough, bloody painful, trying to get sober on your own.

Life is tough in Mumbai when you are alone.

Running alone is the toughest. You get to the point where you have to keep pushing yourself.

Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.

No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after.

Mostly I sit alone in a room and cry and do my job - so when they let me out of my cave to go on tour, I really listen to my readers.

I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.

There's a lot of loneliness in a book tour. A lot of grilled cheese sandwiches alone in your hotel at night.

When I'm touring, everything is so structured and I'm surrounded by people all the time, so I love walking on my own in the open air in the countryside.

Touring is really a pretty lonely business.

Touring gets really lonely.

When I moved to New York, I felt very strong emotionally and mentally. Aside from touring, I'd spent a couple of years alone and because of that, I was able to go out in the world again.

When I'm not touring, I really don't leave the house.

In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The gardeners tend the lawns, one section at a time. Even at the famous sites, tourism is inconstant.

Ninety per cent of the tourists climbing big mountains are on 10 mountains - and one million mountains in the world are empty.