Quotes About Solitude

You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

I still think of that guy I was without a wife or kids, and I still want to entertain that guy. The lonely guy, the frustrated guy, the guy with no money - this is the guy who needs to laugh.

I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.

"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.

Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.

I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude the more one wants a companion.

I love to write and I assure you I write regularly... But I write for myself, for my own pleasure. And I want to be left alone to do it.

And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!" "Good Heavens!" said Pippin. "At breakfast?

Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk, peel out in the parking lot, tip cows.

Hey, I always say: if you want a quiet life, become a monk.

I'd done a very long project on Bridges To Babylon. I was on the road for ages with that. When I came off the road, I thought, the next thing I want to do on my own.

Sometimes...I just want to run away from it all

No one wants to spend too long inside their own darkness.

Masturbation is not the happiest form of sexuality, but the most advisable for him who wants to be alone and think.

We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be happy. So few people will understand this simplicity.

What I like about being alone is being able to do whatever you want and it's for yourself.

Anyone who wants to be truly free must be willing to stand alone in the truth.

Stop the world. I want to get off.

Because for whatever reason, even though I want to stay home all the time and be left alone, I want to tell the world who I am now.

I thought it was safer and easier to be one my own. But I don't think I was to be invisible anymore because-because it's lonely, and I don't want to be lonely. I don't want to be alone.

When you're alone, it's easier," she said a little wistfully. "You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.

Norfolk is not on the way to anywhere, you don't stop off on the way somewhere else - it's an end in itself. You have to want to go there; it's an effort.

I still have anonymity, which is great. I can go out anywhere I want and no one ever recognizes me.