Quotes About Solitude

Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!

I love doing sketches, but I don't relish being by myself. That's not something I'm used to doing.

I find music distracting - it takes me out of my head. What I love so much about skiing is the peacefulness.

I'd rather stay away from the limelight. Not because I'm trying to be a good boy and all that stuff. I just love quiet.

There's nothing that I love more than predawn. I'm with the dogs, I make coffee, and there's no one up.

I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.

I don't let nobody see me wishin' he was mine

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

This is how many people become artists, musicians, writers, computer programmers, record-holding athletes, scientists... by spending time alone practicing what they love.

Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?

It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.

I would love to stay alone when I'm creating.

I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But because I'm such a homebody, it's important to be surrounded by things I love.

I almost never get lonely. I love being alone. I'm glad I'm married, and I love my wife. But there's never been a situation in my life where my unhappiness was based on loneliness.

I love movies. That's still my favorite form of escape, and I usually end up going alone. I love to go and sit in the theater by myself, no distractions.

I like my privacy. I love being a part of [films], but when I'm not doing stuff, I like to go away. I enjoy being a person, a great deal.

Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and great each other.

I think living with the absence of someone we love is like living in front of a mountain from which a person - a speck in the distance, on some distance ridge - is perpetually waving.

And though I walk home alone, my faith in love is still devout.

Like the creatures of the forest and the sea, I love To lose myself for a while.

I love to read, and I like the fact that there's some silence in my life.

I love the broad margin to my life.