Quotes About Solitude

I'm not on social media; I don't watch TV. I'm really out of it.

You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.

I don't enjoy being on social media or at events.

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

You realize that as much as you want to socialize with the people on the set, or you want to, after a day shooting, joke around or whatever. Somehow, with playing Jesus, this doesn't happen. You actually need to decompress and be on your own and prepare on your own. It never happened to me before.

The best way for guys to communicate is just don't talk to each other for nine hours. That's why I like long motorcycle rides. It's a great way for guys to socialize and not socialize.

I don't party or socialize.

When I look at it, I don't really like people, and socializing is really awful. Outside of my family, friends, and those connected to my job, I don't think I actively want to meet anyone. I've always lived in the country, after all.

Well, I don't go out much socially. I don't enjoy going out.

I'm a loner. I like to be alone. I'm socially awkward.

There is in us a lyric germ or nucleus which deserves respect; it bids a man to ponder or create; and in this dim corner of himself he can take refuge and find consolations which the society of his fellow creatures does not provide.

To me, personally, an ideal society would be a world where only I and those I care for exist.

I have this one room - it has a TV, a sofa, some candles. I close the door, sit down and lose myself.

Silence is the necessary soil for any thought to flourish.

I have always been fascinated by plants. I have always preferred plants to human beings. They give me an enormous amount of solace.

I am your homegirl, at the end of the day, but I also feel very... outside. So if you're finding solace in feeling outside with me, then we're good to go.

When I was a lone soldier I didn't have a penny with me. Everybody was eating hummus with tehina and ate falafel, and I couldn't buy it. I was a little hungry, but I managed.

The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.

Writing is a solitary occupation; we don't really have any colleagues.

I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world.

Composition has almost always been solitary.

Editing is kind of a solitary job.

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easier to be alone. To have your relationships be casual and also to pose as a solitary person, because it was more romantic. You know, I was raised on the idea of the ramblin' man and the loner.

The wailing owl Screams solitary to the mournful moon.