Quotes About Solitude

In the right circumstances, I'm a big fan of eating alone. Often, on a Sunday evening, I go to a yoga class whose charm is largely that it gives me an alibi to avoid cooking family supper for once. I return to have boiled eggs and soldiers in silence with a book. Bliss.

Yoga is a great thing to do because you can just practice it by yourself in your hotel.

I do a bit of yoga - by myself, not classes. I like to go for long walks and to garden.

The most solitary I ever felt was when I was living in New York. I used to live in Enrico Caruso's old apartment, and I had a special staircase that took me up to the roof. There was nobody up there.

The loneliest ebb of my life came on that Christmas eve, only one day after my arrival in New York. The abyss of loneliness. I ate a solitary dinner in a small cafe, and the very food tasted bitter with my unshed tears. One doesn't dare cry in America. It is unmanly here.

I love New York! You walk around, nobody notices you, you don't notice anybody, you're in your own little world.

Seven years ago, when I started free soloing long, hard routes in Yosemite - climbing without a rope, gear or a partner - I did it because it seemed like the purest, most elegant way to scale big walls. Climbing, especially soloing, felt like a grand adventure, but I never dreamed it could be a profession.

I crave time in Yosemite like I crave food and water.

It is nice finding that place where you can just go and relax.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Since I was young, I've been aware that I need time to myself to process everything.

I found it quite pleasing to be alone from a very young age. The piano became my source of release.

I'm blessed with a great memory. To be honest, a lot of times, being on my own at such a young age, my memories were all I had. I didn't have many pictures.

Being married and having a child was not something I wanted, and I knew that at a very young age. I tend to be more solitary, and I'm truly a free spirit.

In the late summer of 1986, the band I had been in for five years stopped playing. Suddenly, I was on my own. This new state of bandlessness was, at first, traumatic. When your group breaks up, a lot of broken parts hit the ground.

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.

I don't sleep very well when I travel. And as a result, I tend to be awake in cities when everyone else is asleep.

I have traveled the world by myself.

You can't separate the people from the places - although I sometimes like traveling in places where there are no people.

I've never had a clique. It's impossible when you're always traveling.

I found that traveling on my own created a different state of mind because when you travel with your partner or a friend there is an endless tendency to exchange information, feelings and associations.

I don't watch television! At least not when I'm traveling. For some reason, I have always found it depressing to watch television in hotel rooms. I try to use that time, as well as time on planes, to write.

I tend to be more of an introvert when I'm traveling. I do a lot of people-watching and espresso-drinking.

I've been on my own and traveling for years now.