Quotes About Solitude

I really would love to take a big break and not be photographed, not perform.

I love to sit on my own and think, not to be photographed all the time.

I still like to walk around and take photographs, but it's hard to do that if a lot of people are looking at you.

I don't take any photographs. I travel a lot by myself, and I feel weird taking photos on my own.

I need physics more than friends.

It's true, most of my days are spent alone in a dark room! I don't really want anyone to see me trying and failing to nail the 40th take of a simple piano cue.

Homer Collyer's chosen form of self-expression is the piano, although late in life, when his hearing also goes, he takes to writing.

I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn't last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn't have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.

I used to run home from school, pick up my guitar, and lock myself in my room and play.

I'm an only child, and I can take all the attention you manage to pile on me.

Without sounding like a New Age crystal worshipper, you can feel something there, in these old dilapidated colonial farms and hidden graveyards in the middle of a pine forest. I certainly did as a kid.

I like to be able to get up and go and buy a pint of milk without bumping into 20 people I know.

I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new.

My idea of fun is to sit looking at a blank wall in a cottage, making up stories in utter silence. The thought of going back to work in an office is horrendous.

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

It must be that a man who shuts himself up between four walls must lose the faculty of associating ideas and words.

In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.

I grew up in the suburbs outside of Newcastle, and there were blank walls, and there was a lot of space to imagine - the fields and the motorways - so I used to sit and talk to myself as different people.

I may have punched walls when no one else was around.

I get a lot of ideas sitting in the living room staring at the walls or lying in bed thinking about things.

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone.

Just as we were finishing 'Paul's Boutique' we got our own places, and I was going out to clubs a lot less. I got a bit more introverted and spent a lot more time on my own reading. I would just go down to the esoteric bookstore and wander around.

Sometimes, if you wander long enough out-of-doors, you look up and find yourself in a suddenly devastating place: on a glittering slab of granite, say, hanging a thousand feet above a mountain lake.