Quotes About Solitude

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

Here in Denmark, you can easily just be left alone. This is my 'hood, and people leave me alone; it's nice.

I don't really engage much in the creative community. I just kind of keep to myself and do my work.

If you just kind of let yourself stay alone and be by yourself, the negative, it is just not going to help you.

My go-to karaoke? 'Alone' by Celine Dion.

I maintain my sanity by keeping my distance.

I think there's a lot to be said for keeping your own counsel.

Fishing keeps you alive, gives you time away - to enjoy God, the creations that He made. Because God made you.

I usually kept everybody at arm's distance.

It's nice to have some anonymity and still be low key.

I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.

I kind of crave loneliness.

And all around is the desert; a corner of the mournful kingdom of sand.

But since I'm single, it's nice to get a kiss where I can.

In general, cooks like to be in the kitchen and they don't really interact with others.

My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.

I got a house... in Effingham, so they lock me up in my hermitic seal, and if they knock, I don't answer the door. I am immersed in my world.

Genius knocks on the door and gets no answer but its own echo.

In the end I'm the only one who knows me.

I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around there. Without the distraction of constant conversation, the words on the page began to speak directly to my inner self. They were no long expressing ideas that were simply interesting intellectually, but were talking directly to my own yearning and perplexity.

I lay in the middle of an orgy-sized bed without the orgy, or anybody for company except a butterfly flirting with the sheers over the window.

One of the best reasons for eating alone is the assurance that you will enjoy the company.

When we make time to respond to Jesus' invitation to go away with him to a quiet place, we can crack-proof our spirits, making them strong and rendering us ready to handle life.

solitude is not primarily about withdrawing from people, but withdrawing for people. Jesus withdrew for the sake of reengaging people to love, heal, and bless them. Solitude does require that we get alone, but we do it so when we reengage with family, friends, or coworkers, we are the kind of people who love others well.