Quotes About Solitude

You can ride, you can travel with a friend of your own; The final step you must take alone. No wisdom is better than this when known: That every hard thing is done alone.

It is preferable not to travel with a dead man.

Along the road you travel, may the miles be a thousand times more lovely than lonely.

Do not carry with you your mistakes. Do not carry your cares. Travel on alone. Like an elephant in the forest.

A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer.

Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man.

I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.

I got one of the illest crews in NY but when I travel it's mostly me and my girl, me and my kids or me and one or two of my dudes but the majority of the time its just me.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel.

Basically, what you find out is the limits of your patience and your strength and your capacity to adapt. You find that out in travel and being alone and being tested. So that's a great thing.

A traveller, lost on a desert plain, feels that the recognition of one star, the Pole star, is of itself a great acquisition.

My witness is the empty sky.

We just lay on our bellies in the snow, gasping and immobile.

The mind is a real dangerous neighborhood to travel by ourselves.

Some journeys in life can only be traveled alone.

I'm particularly inspired by pristine locations. I enjoy working in areas where one can travel for miles without seeing any human influence.

Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.

I learn much more by traveling by myself.

Loneliness is an integral part of travelling. I used to think it was the downside to travelling, but now I realise it is a necessary educative part of it to be embraced.

The greatest difficulty of Travel is that one is forced to take oneself along.

The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination.

I drop in from the sky disturbing the silence only momentarily, then leaving the ancient land once more to converse with the sky. It's my home and all I need.

I need a moment of time for myself every day, like a child playing with his things. When I travel, I routinely find a quiet place, open my diary and write something in it.