Quotes About Solitude

Everyone in New York is very self-involved. They're focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone.

I stay in my own little zone, and that's good for me.

For me, I prefer to work on my own. I feel like I can tap into a more genuine place, and I feel like my best stuff comes from writing on my own in my own zone.

I'm very quiet off stage. I think I'm a pretty boring person. I'm not super talkative; I spend a lot of my time running and zoning out. I spend so much time trying to write jokes and 'be on,' so when I'm finally off stage, I just want to sit.

The process of making music is very therapeutic; it's late at night and I'm wearing headphones a lot of the time, so it becomes a way of zoning out and engaging with my thoughts. It's a solitary environment and process.

(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free from admirers then.

Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.

The dust and silence of the upper shelf.

What is reading but silent conversation?

Reading, like prayer, remains one of our few private acts.

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters.

Ottawa is a city where nobody lives, though some of us may die there.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.

A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influence, to change.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude: character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God.

Far from gay cities, and the way of men.

The time when, most of all, you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then clusters when there is hardly time to breathe.

Nothing is more to me than myself.

Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.

All the great pleasures in life are silent.