Quotes About Solitude

When I'm in the starting gate, it's just me and the hill.

When a man is extremely lonely, he starts discovering himself.

Painting puts me into an alpha state. It's a private event. I make all the decisions in the process and never have to deal with the outside world.

I never lived in an abandoned railroad station.

It's great that I can look up a fact instantly on my cellphone, but I miss the days in my room with a dog-eared, text-heavy paperback, immersed in the statistics of crime and punishment and lunacy, completely alone with the narrative of human depravity.

I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.

I like to stay at home and make cinema in my head.

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

I don't do much else but stay in my hotel room.

I like Alaska for the salmon fishing - it's fantastic there. I usually stay in a log cabin with no one around for miles. I like to go with friends, but I'm also happy to be on my own with nature.

I would stay in my room for days, for days at times, just trying to get it together, to know what my next phase was going to be.

Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene.

I stayed at home and loved my own company because I was just petrified of everybody else my own age, which I think a lot of people are.

I have no particular formula for staying private.

I got nothing. I got my shoes and my pants. I'm staying with a friend. I stop by my mother's every once in a while to get my calls. I don't want to be anywhere anybody can find me.

I don't mind staying in one place for a while - I like to spend a lot of time in Los Angeles. It's a place where nobody goes out, where people will leave you alone. People in Los Angeles love themselves and they love what they do and they leave you alone. If you're isolated, you have a real advantage. You can work.

As much as we love being sociable on holiday, part of me craves the idea of being away, staying in a hut on the beach, and maybe not seeing anyone for days apart from Jamie and the boys.

I was an introvert really. I spent a lot of time in the crib reading books. Staying out of trouble.

But learning how to enjoy my own company - and picking up hobbies is really important as well in not being bored and staying sane. But it can be quite difficult to get to that point where you can sit and relax and enjoy your own company.

My private life stays private.

Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.

Sometimes the only kind of innovation comes when you have some solitude; when you step away.

The whole world is out of step, apart from me.

I sort of have stepped out of the public eye, and it's actually been really refreshing.