Quotes About Solitude

Give me something that'll haunt me when you're not around...

The hush of the night sky is the silence of a graveyard.

This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness....

a happy birthday this evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness. I could easily have switched on a lamp, but I wanted to ride the day down into night, to sit alone, and smooth the unreadable page with the pale gray ghost of my hand

A Happy Birthday - 1939- This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness. I could easily have switched on a lamp, but I wanted to ride this day down into night, to sit alone and smooth the unreadable page with the pale gray ghost of my hand.

Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.

It's possible of course, especially when you're young, to read a book and take it to your heart. And you don't need to speak to anybody about it - it's so important to you: You have found it.

I never found it frustrating not speaking.

Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal.

Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.

There's just an incredible amount of loneliness as a mother, all this solitude no one really speaks to.

One of the sports I do - my wife thinks I'm nuts - is open-water spear fishing, what we call blue-water hunting. We get in a boat, and we go offshore, normally about 30 miles. So when you jump off the boat, there are no reefs, and the bottom is no longer fifty or a hundred feet: it's thousands of feet. It's sort of like being in outer space.

It's called a private life for a reason - it's mine, and it's special and sacred.

We should just know that we can all create this special, safe place within ourselves that we can feel comfortable in and that doesn't necessarily have to be with other people.

We do a lot of bird-watching up in the country, but we almost never have a chance to people-watch. There simply aren't enough human beings up here: there is nowhere you can park yourself with a cup of coffee and observe the species on parade.

Wasn't it Emerson who said, 'My life is for itself and not for a spectacle'? I have a happy, full, good life because I hold it private.

The night sky, seen from a deserted foothold where no man-made light shines, is more spectacular than any giant cinema screen could ever display.

I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.

I, schooled in misery, know many purifying rites, and I know where speech is proper and where silence.

I think J.D. Salinger is correct in granting no interviews, and in making no speeches.

I'm definitely introverted, and I like my own company, and I can keep my head down while I'm going about my day, but then I do have spells of mad hyperactivity.

I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world.

If you're very introverted, you prefer to spend much of your time alone, and when you do connect, you'd rather get together with one or two close friends than face a crowd.

I didn't really get serious about my own writing until I was convinced it was something that I wanted to do, that I wanted to spend that much time alone.