Quotes About Solitude

Ballet became this escape for me. I feel like I was on my own a lot. I was searching for stability, so I was going off on my own and imagining what I thought stability was. Ballet became a way for me to cope.

I'm probably one of the few people who can say that I've played an empty Wembley Stadium.

I have competed before empty stadiums a lot in my career.

In the past, I was free to write in quiet and in the space wherever my desk was at. I could leave my instruments out. In the past, my writing was super private; I never liked showing my work at its earliest stages.

I don't do stairs. And I don't do groups.

Very few people are original. There's very little original anything out there. Because to be original means you have to stand alone.

I'm an introvert somewhat. There could be a room full of people, I'll go stand in the corner.

It's a little nerve-wracking to stand up on stage all by yourself.

St Andrews is one of those places where you can be the only person around but you feel like people are watching you. It's just got that aura about it, it's got atmosphere, it's got history. It's one of those rare places in the world which is something special. The hairs on the back of your neck stand up, it's just got that magic appeal.

Was ever a great discovery prosecuted or an important benefit conferred upon the human race by him who was incapable of standing and thinking and feeling alone?

It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here.

The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been.

I love the quiet forest that stands between my lab and my home.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.

We die alone, but we live among men.

A man who drinks only water has a secret to hide from his fellow men.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

The misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a beast or a god.

I am a man who does not exist for others.

There comes a time in every man's life when he needs his own toilet.

A strongest man is the loneliest one

Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand," the father had told his adoring son. "And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone." ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone.