Quotes About Solitude

Your opinion is not influenced by anyone when you're alone at a matinee. It's just you and the movie.

I don't have any influences, any heroes, it's just me.

Stay out of the loop, the club, the inner circle.

Build a cell inside your mind, from which you can never flee.

I had nothing and lived in the most insignificant place.

I wasn't part of any movement. I was working alone, following my instinct.

I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.

'Lonerism' is such an insular, detached album.

If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

I can have a real long day; I can have a 14-hour day of intense work and then get home, and it's just me and TCM on into the night.

'You're not alone' can be a great thing to hear when you're feeling quite despondent and alienated from the world and yourself. But if you're someone who's been completely overwrought with the intensity of life and the world, getting some space to be alone can be one of the things you crave most.

I don't interact with people much.

I'm not designed to interact with society.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

'Castaway' is my favorite movie, and any time I read about a castaway or a story like that, it just interests me a lot.

Boredom means you develop your own interior life.

I can get very quiet and internalize things.

Being places alone makes you think. Being there with someone makes you hounded by details, like what time the other person wants to leave; details that drain energy when you are trying to discover the core of an event. Being there with William put a damper on glorious possibilities. But I'd given up on those, which was why, I suppose, I went so many places with William.

Man is left a conscious Something in the midst, so far as he knows, of Nothing: with no resources save the exploring of his own consciousness.

If it could only be like this always — always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe...

If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...

Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?

Artists walk alone.