Quotes About Solitude

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

Most inventors and engineers I've met are like me. They're shy and they live in their heads. The very best of them are artists. And artists work best alone.

My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.

My work is always better when I am alone and follow my own impressions.

It is easier to find guides, someone to tell you what to do, than someone to be with you in a discerning, prayerful companionship as you work it out yourself. This is what spiritual direction is.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.

Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep.

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all life long.

The picture is a self-sufficient work of art. It is not connected to anything outside.

It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.

Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few.

[A cat] will make itself the companion of your hours of work, of loneliness, or of sadness.

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.

Internally, you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life - solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing and ultimately challenge.

If you want great tranquility/ It's hard work and a long walk

When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.

Work alone will efface the footsteps of work.

Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.

Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.