Quotes About Solitude

Solitude is the mother of anxieties.

My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference.

We live in such a noisy world that many of us have come to be afraid of silence. We think that if only we do a great deal, it does not much matter what we are.

Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate.

We are only alone when we abandon ourselves.

Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.

There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.

Animals, like us, have rich and spacious interiors. They contain inner landscapes: desert places and lonely canyons, cliffs of madness and rivers or serene awareness that merge in tranquil seas.

Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.

Life moves on but i want to live alone.

To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Before I compose a piece, I walk round it several times, accompanied by myself.

Away, away, from men and towns, To the wild wood and the downs, - To the silent wilderness, Where the soul need not repress Its music.

Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

I make my music at night when there's no noise... Just me, my headphones and the silence. But I'm always making music in my head. It's like a non-stop radio!

I'll read my books and I'll drink coffee and I'll listen to music, and I'll bolt the door.

I like being at home with my music and my books. I've done all the partying, I've done enough partying for four or five people as a young fella. But now I like the quiet life.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

The truth is, that I feel alone most of the time. I stopped believing in happiness, but I know that music makes me feel good.

Excuse me if I have/some place in my mind/where I go time to time.

I like to go into a little shell and be a hermit and make music for a while.

Wilderness. The word itself is music.