Quotes About Solitude

I love the solitude of the mountains. I write, take pictures and get inspired by the colors of nature.

Solitude is very restorative for me, especially because I spend so much time around other people and performing to people.

If you use that time where you're alone in ways that bring you joy and peace, then that solitude can have a really positive effect on your life.

I can't do solitude.

I still find it difficult to cope with the solitude of writing. I often crave the feedback of working with a team.

As public as I seem with all my charity parties and entertaining, I actually spend a lot time in solitude and need it!

I'm looking forward to some more solo acoustic dates. That's a lot of fun for me, because I get to be alone with the song. And I get to hear every little nuance; if my instrument does something that I wasn't expecting, I get to chase that. Chase that down a little bit.

I got no entourage in real life. Solo. I go solo. No entourage.

When I was on the road with Billy Bragg, it was cool because I was doing the whole thing solo and travel a lot by myself, which I quite like. I mean, I love being with friends, but it's kind of nice having that alone time.

I'm a solo skater; the sport can be lonely.

When you hear a solo piano, there's a solitude about just one instrument playing. It can be beautiful; it can be sad.

My solo music started as a way to really look inwards, and to spend time completely by myself with an instrument, without any outside dialogue.

The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.

I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.

I don't typically have a social life, I don't have a family, and I will stay up all night, every night, for days on end, to solve something that I think is solvable. And it's very frustrating sometimes, because I know that I'm like that, and it's not always a positive result.

No one can feel more gratefully the charm of noble scenery, or the refreshment of escape into the unspoiled solitudes of nature, than the laborer at some close in-door employment.

Some people do better on their own. I don't.

After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?

I'm introverted by nature, and I need to have some things of my own.

I am really a loner after all; I am really not a social person. Because of my job, people think I am out every night, but I really hate all that. I am somebody who likes to be alone and see some close friends. I am a shy and introspective person.

We are all born and someday we'll all die. Most likely to some degree alone. Our aloneness in this world is, maybe not anymore, a thing to mourn.

Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.

All I want to do is get me a piece of land someplace where I can say, 'This is home,' and I got nobody bothering me.

You may not enjoy loneliness, because loneliness is sad. But solitude is something else; solitude is what you look forward to when you want to be alone, when you want to be with yourself. So, solitude is something we all need from time to time.