Quotes About Solitude

When my parents got divorced, I wanted to spend my time laying in the garage listening to the washer and dryer. Loud, immersive, changing. It was music to me.

For me, because my life is so public, I just like to be alone sometimes in my private house and enjoy my time.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

I was deaf and dumb and blind to all but me, myself and I.

I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head, that's what I do.

I liked roaming around by myself.

All this is only for the mice and myself to admire!

Talking to other people about a part is not helpful for me. It's such an internal and complicated and still kind of mysterious process.

In the past I led such a mysterious life. I didn't give interviews.

The road is a nasty place and lonely.

I'm not naturally an extrovert. I'm a writer - I sit in a room by myself making things up. That is where I'm happiest.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

The woods were thick with shadowed green, and Rhonda wished she were in them, walking animal trails until they faded into the brush and she was lost, could stay lost for good.

Though often surrounded by people, Hattie felt dreadfully alone.

When I couldn't see the land out there, I forgot I wasn't at home. Sometimes I wished it was always night.

It was country dark. He closed his eyes, feeling safe.

Wind in the high boughs brushed leaves like the sound of distant water. As the canopy shifted, light flowed across the forest floor. He'd forgotten the pleasures of being in the woods.

I knew now that the trouble with the dead wasn't that they overwhelmed you, that they haunted you and stifled you with memories. The trouble with the dead was that they packed up and left you, and there was nothing you could do to bring them back.

He wasn't worried about being alone. He was used to it. He'd been alone most of his life, even in the midst of a crowd. He could handle that, no problem.

The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?

The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think? ? Christine Feehan, Dark Prince

Sometimes I go into the mountains and stay by myself for days, weeks, and I'm not lonely, yet at a party, surrounded by a hundred people, I am more lonely than ever.

I want to take you into the forest, Raven, my forest, where the trees are thick and few people have ever set foot.

The ice was there. The distance between him and the rest of the world.