Quotes About Solitude

Nobody knew my rose of the world but me... I had too much glory. They don't want glory like that in nobody's heart

After all, when you seek advice from someone it's certainly not because you want them to give it. You just want them to be there while you talk to yourself.

Everyone has experienced alienation - at some point you go through a moment where you say: "I just want to be left alone." And what is the ultimate point of being alone? - it's dying, of course.

He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.

But if you are single the last thing you want is your best friend forming a functional relationship with somebody else.

I'm reading! I don't want to be disturbed!

I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.

I can't think of anything when I'm depressed. I just want to be alone.

I've been asked over the years to compile a list of desert-island discs. I couldn't do that. If I was trapped on a desert island, I don't think I'd want 10 songs to bring with me.

A little pure wildness is the one great present want, both of men and sheep.

Sometimes one simply wants to disappear.

Ignore me. I don't want to talk about my nonexistent love life today.

I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I'm with you I have this sense that you want something from me.

I really only have Perfect Fun with myself. Other people won't stop and look at the things I want to look at or, if they do, they stop to please me or to humor me or to keep the peace.

I live in a one bedroom apartment by myself which is cool. I like to have my stuff exactly where I want it, so living alone is good for me.

I can understand why people would want to stay on the road because you create your own bubble. You almost don't live in the real world. Just to have the things that are with you is fine.

The one good thing about being kind of shy is that nobody bugs you when you want to be left alone.

After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be but now I want to be.

Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.

I write in bed, too. I find it very comforting. I want to sort of, like, crawl in a fetal position if I have to.

I make films and do the publicity and interviews, but then I want to get away from it all and be on my own.

I went for a walk in the rain. Recently, whenever it rains, I feel like I want to go for a walk.

It is better to be alone then to be in a relationship, while you are trying to figure out what love means to you.