Quotes About Solitude

Being alone in an aeroplane for even so short a time as a night and a day, irrevocably alone, with nothing to observe but your instruments and your own hands in semi-darkness, nothing to contemplate but the size of your small courage, nothing to wonder about but the beliefs, the faces, and the hopes rooted in your mind - such an experience can be as startling as the first awareness of a stranger walking by your side at night. You are the stranger.

Night flying over charted country by the aid of instruments and radio guidance can still be a lonely business, but to fly in unbroken darkness without even the cold companionship of a pair of ear-phones or the knowledge that somewhere ahead are lights and life and a well-marked airport is something more than just lonely.

I always concluded that lonely or not it was still free from the curse of boredom.

Aloneness exaggerates our emotions and sensitivity.

I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence.

I'm a bit of a loner, you know? I'm more quiet by nature. And coming from, you know, hillbilly country, I'm probably more reserved.

I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.

It's just an ice bucket with a bottle in it. The two flute glasses are little tray. I got to shut the curtains. I'm in my boxer shorts and shirt. I'm going to take a bath and go to bed. But I want to shut the blinds so it's really dark in the room.

And I found that when I built my own place and just shut the door, the creativity was endless.

I find I have to give myself a day when I just shut myself off and do nothing but read.

I've had days when I go in my bedroom for 24 hours at a time. I call them my Cilla Black days, and they're literally black days. It's like the old Boomtown Rats song 'I Don't Like Mondays.' You just want to shut the whole day down.

I don't think I've ever been lonely in my entire life. I love to shut my front door and be on my own.

I think I'm generally more inspired when I'm away from technology. Whether that is on a beach somewhere or just in your room with your phones and screens shut off, I think that quietness is often very inspiring.

Whenever I'm sick or injured, I go into a bubble and shut myself off.

It's so easy to shut down and be in your own head after a breakup, you know?

I love shutting my front door and being at home with just my dog and me. That's when I'm happiest.

I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.

I am not a people person. It's not that I am shy, but I am more comfortable in an atmosphere of one-on-one. I hate crowds and parties.

I am more of an introvert person who is a little shy to get into random chat. I would rather observe people silently.

I am extremely shy. I am not happy in crowds of people.

We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us.

I'm not shy, not reclusive, not any of those things, but the idea of a day in front of me when I have nothing to do, is just, oh what pleasure!

I was too shy to do anything but read, but there was nobody to tell me what to read.

I'm really shy, man. I don't really talk much. I just read, sit in my room and just read graphic novels because I don't have many friends and many people that like to talk to me.