Quotes About Solitude

As a writer, I spend a lot of time alone, and I like it. I'm also a long-distance runner, and I love long, solo road trips; I can drive literally all night, drinking coffee, and not even listening to the radio, just strangely content sifting through the random thoughts in my own head.

Even if there are people around to help you, you don't suffer with an audience; you don't triumph with an audience.

We tell our triumphs to the crowds, but our own hearts are the sole confidants of our sorrows.

I'd love to go to a remote part of the world or maroon myself on a tropical island, and shoot the whole thing myself. I've always adventured with other people and I'd like to spend some time completely on my own.

Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!

If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.

Sleepin' in the truck wasn't so bad. Shoot, I kind of liked that, myself.

When I'm in the truck on my own I play big, open space music, such as Ry Cooder or Latin stuff.

My take is, privacy is precious. I think privacy is the last true luxury. To be able to live your life as you choose without having everyone comment on it or know about.

There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right.

Those who talk to themselves are the truest actors.

When I look at 'Fallen Angels,' I realize it is not a film that is truly about Hong Kong. It's more like my Hong Kong fantasy. I want Hong Kong to be quiet, with less people.

I truly believe that to actually be free and to be in place you can create from, you have to be able to be private.

Inside the car is truly my own personal space.

To me, there is no greater way to achieve clarity than to run alone, or share miles with a trusted friend.

There's nothing that compares with the time spent all by myself on a creation that is all my own. I still think of my solo work as my 'home planet' in comics, though I've learned to listen much more to editors and trusted friends for feedback.

I want to spend the night alone in a haunted mansion. I wouldn't say I'm sceptical because that word implies the truth is out there when there is no truth out there.

People will occasionally ask me if I understand what it's like to be lonely. And the truth is I don't, because for me, solitariness is a blessing, a gift. Me, I get on fine with myself.

I sometimes get asked, 'What's it like, being spotted?', but the truth is I don't, ever. I love that I can walk around, being private.

Now go away then, and leave me alone. I don't want any more of your meretricious persiflage.

If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.

Solitude gives you the ideas and the motivation to make you want to collaborate.

Get alone with Jesus and either tell Him that you do not want sin to die out in you - or else tell Him that at all costs you want to be identified with His death.