Quotes About Solitude

I don't really like being in the centre of attention.

I don't like going out or attending award ceremonies.

I think that all the time I lived alone changed me.

Whenever there was chaos in my house, whether it was arguing, being in a cramped space with all of us kids and screaming, I found an empty space where I could just put music on and move.

You can cheat in solitaire, but there's nothing satisfying about cheating in solitaire.

When I lived alone in Chicago, I had a lot of loneliness issues.

If it were to me, I'd usually just chill in my room or go to the spa.

I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.

I honestly keep to myself often and I keep my circle small.

I don't care much for the cities.

I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.

My whole thing is I'm not into civilization as a whole.

I realized that I love the quiet bits in most superhero films.

A solitary laugh is often a laugh of superiority.

I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.

I have few friends. I can count them on one hand. I go by myself to the cleaners and the supermarket and I live alone with my dogs.

I am a loner, I suppose.

It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.

Sometimes I felt glad not to be too close to people. I might have been happier, I suppose. On the other hand, I never had much luck with people over the years.

Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.

I suppose we do live a pretty isolated life.

I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.

I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent a lot of time on my own in the fields or by the lake, with just my imagination for company. I suppose I never wanted to let that part of me go.

I suppose a lot of people don't understand that one of the things that drew me to hunting was the peace and the solitude, the mushy spiritual stuff, strangely enough. The quiet away from 75,000 roaring fans. The fans, that's very wonderful - I get a great charge from that.