Quotes About Solitude

I found that quiet place in my home that is my place of refuge. I don't care if you got kids or if you are married. You got to find that one place that is your everybody-off-limit place: unless this place is on fire, or you need to go to the emergency room, don't disturb me. You can go to this place and cleanse, meditate, let God speak to you.

One thing I always think about in making a market, and it again is something I have learned from Sam [Palmisano] as well, he always says, "Be first and be lonely."

For the self-development of men and women it is absolutely necessary that they should be alone with themselves at least one hour each day-to get the blessings of solitude.

Loneliness is a terrible blindness.

Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.

Most women still need a room of their own and the only way to find it may be outside their own home.

It brought back to mind the injustice I spoke of, the solitude that oppresses women intent on defending their own destinies, their own dreams, their own mistakes.

Most women would not be happy being me. People say, 'But you're alone.' But I don't feel alone. I feel very un-alone.

Women need a space to be creative -- creativity thrives in solitude.

In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become.

I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.

Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this, but it means that these women, they were not sharing my solitude.

i sometimes think i'm too in love with alone.who could i love more than this peace?

Hide in the mirror. No one will look for you there.

The only race you are guaranteed to win is the one you run alone.

Wolves travel in packs, but the fiercest travel alone.

She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut.

Sometimes the idea of living as a hermit appeals to all of us. No demands, no needs, no pain, no disappointments. But that is because we have been hurt, are worn out.

Standup is really the only thing in the entertainment business that you do totally alone.

A nice pop star would do you nice on one of those deserted islands.

Stand-up comedy is a really lonely profession: you 'perform for 2000 people, then you go to a hotel room by yourself and stare at a wall.

That's the time that I enjoy: away from the cameras, away from the audience, the scenery of going out to eat and everybody's staring at me.

Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.