Quotes About Solitude

I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

Men's legs have a terribly lonely life - standing in the dark in your trousers all day.

There is nothing in the desert and no man needs nothing.

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.

Scotland is the country above all others that I have seen, in which a man of imagination may carve out his own pleasures; there are so many inhabited solitudes.

All my days have I grown up among the Sages and I have found naught better for a man than silence.

All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.

All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff turns out to be a load of crap because, in the last analysis, A MAN IS AN ISLAND.

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.

I tend to think of myself as a one-man wolf pack.

Every man has a train of thought on which he rides when he is alone.

Nothing is more useful than silence.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.

For when a woman is left too much alone, sooner or later she begins to think; and no man knows what then she may discover.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

There is no one so lonely than a man who loves only himself.

The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.

In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.

All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself.

and nothing was worse than getting stuck in a situation like that with nothing to read.

Maybe that's what a leader is, Dinah. The one person who can't—who shouldn't—share her problems with anyone else.

To Randy the party is like any other: he shakes hands with a few people, forgets their names, finds a place to sit down, and enjoys the wine and the food in blissful solitude.

When it gets really intolerable, he goes to the latrine (so that the staff will not break in on him at an inopportune moment) and executes a Manual Override.