Quotes About Solitude

I lived in a neighborhood where there weren't many kids. I had a couple sisters, but I was very much a loner. Whatever film I had seen that day or that week, I would completely find myself in that world.

Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by myself.

To escape and sit quietly on the beach - that's my idea of paradise.

The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except sit in a room with a candle and think.

Mountains terrify me - they just sit about; they are so proud.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

You can only really hear the beat of your own drum if you give yourself the space to sit in it.

I would take my guitar to college and sit for hours in the hills humming to myself.

I really just like to sit alone at the piano. I need my me time.

If I'm not doing something or working on something, I literally just sit in the room and think, which I don't think is productive. I won't go outside for days.

I'm not a very glamorous person. I like to just sit alone in a room and read a book or meditate.

A lot of people think I'm really outgoing and confident, but I'm not. I'd much rather sit in a corner and read my book and my paper. I'm quite happy with my own company.

I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write because I want to read books like the ones I write. I write because I am angry at everyone. I write because I love sitting in a room all day writing. I write because I can partake of real life only by changing it.

I love going to coffee shops and just sitting and listening.

Nothing is more satisfying to me than sitting in a dank room, hunched over a single flickering candle like Ebenezer Scrooge, and watching my ledgers fill themselves with ink.

When I'm sitting in the church alone, I can hear singing of the old people. I can hear their singing and I can hear their praying, and sometimes I hum one of their songs.

I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

For six years, I was really on my own and did not have a coach.

I'm an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.

When I'm really fixated on a bit of writing, I can easily spend six days without leaving the house and barely leaving my room.

I'm basically as shy a person as I was when I once worked in an office in London in the late Sixties. I like my own company. I didn't need a lot of friends.

I am not made for lonely expeditions. In the sixties, I climbed during the day so I wouldn't have to be alone. I finally learned to stay up for weeks in the high altitude all by my own without being afraid.

Even when I'm at home, I keep to myself - skateboarding, riding bikes, and stuff in the house.

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.