Quotes About Solitude

Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

I need physics more than friends," he confessed to Frank in the autumn of 1929.

Humble is such a lonely word.

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me and a lonely you.

I can see you, out there, reading between the lines. Come home, stranger. Come home, untangler of my thoughts. Come home and tell me, what do I do with this breaking heart of mine?

grief saw nothing but itself, grief saw every speck of pain in the world; grief spread its wings large like an eagle, grief huddled small like a porcupine; grief needed company, grief craved solitude; grief wanted to remember, wanted to forget; grief raged, grief whimpered; grief made time compress and contract; grief tasted like hunger, felt like numbness, sounded like silence

awful freedom of someone with no one to answer to.

Insights are achieved in silence.

Live your life as a lonely stranger. As a wanderer filled with awe and wonder. Leave everything as you found it. For none of it belongs to you. Let the events happen around you, knowing that none of them are happening TO You. And you will live an equanimous life.

I don't give interviews.

I don't do many interviews.

I don't like to do a lot of interviews.

It's a very intimate, closed universe, doing my own music. It's just me, basically. I have to inspire myself; I have to do everything by myself.

I'm not an intimate person, really.

When we go to sleep ordinarily, we're doing something really private. It's kind of an intimate, private connection with our sort of physical humanity.

I think that quiet lends itself to that kind of in-your-own-head introspection.

I'm a bit of an introvert, so after talking for an hour and then shaking hands and taking pictures with the people who came out, I kind of need to be alone for a bit to get away from all stimuli.

I'm an introvert.

As a person, I am an introvert.

I was an introvert.

I am an introvert. I should get that out there now.

By nature I'm sort of an introvert.

I'm very much an introvert.