Quotes About Solitude

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

I prefer solitude to companions, since there are so few men who are trustworthy, and almost none truly learned. I do not say this because I demand scholarship in all men—although the sum total of men's learning is small enough; but I question whether we should allow anyone to waste our time. The wasting of time is an abomination.

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

I was always such a people-watcher. I would sit on street corners alone and watch people and make up stories about them in my head. Then, all of a sudden, I was the one being watched.

I give myself strength by staying away from any music.

Sometimes all you need is to climb a simple hill, to spend time staring at an empty horizon, to jump into a cold river or sleep under the stars, or perhaps share a whisky at a small country inn in order to remind yourself what matters most to you in life.

In a busy city it is easy to forget that somewhere out there are fields and rivers and peace.

And although, snug in your sleeping bag on a frosty night, the valley below may be bright with street lights and roads, the wind is as raw and fresh as ever, and a night beneath the stars remains magical and precious.

I am more at peace with myself and the world when I spend an extended period outdoors

Personal life? I'd like to keep it private.

I like to keep my personal life private.

I've never felt any huge intrusions into my personal life.

On the road, you can't really develop a personal life.

My personal life is fairly barren.

I'm not very comfortable about the audience getting a peek into my personal life. I like to keep my personal space.

One thing that has influenced my personal life, my career, my attitude, the person I have become and every decision that I have made is a fact that I have been a loner as a child.

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.

I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.

Peter O'Toole - I really loved that man. They sent me into the desert, and I lived there with him for 100 days. And there were no women! Can you believe it?

Loneliness is always there, it's a phase that comes and goes and it is a very difficult phase.

On April 8, 1982, I was alone in the electron microscope room when I discovered the Icosahedral Phase that opened the field of quasi-periodic crystals.

I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.

My idea of heaven is being in Arizona, stuck up a mountain - somewhere where there are no phones.

The thing I love most about going to the Rocky Mountain National Park is that mobile phones don't work, and there's no electricity and no TV.