Quotes About Solitude

I find it easier to work when it's quiet.

I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.

Nights without work I spend with whisky and books.

Every morning, I crawl out of bed. I sit there and think, 'Do I really need this?' And I drag myself to the gym in my garage. It's not fun. I hate it. I work out alone. Weights.

If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.

Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.

I drive myself to and from work. I love the privacy.

I'm never gonna go into a studio and work for a whole year non-stop. Just every day on my own in the studio working, it's just too damn hard.

It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone. I don't want to be too dramatic, but it's hard. It's necessary to start most work alone.

Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing... The will to work builds all the seclusion that one needs.

Me, you could stick me in solitary confinement for 100 years and I'd be fine.

When I do outdoor scenes, I tend to find a quiet space where I can sit and carve a walking stick that can turn out to be interesting for me.

I just assumed the world was full of solo percussionists. I couldn't find sticks or music or anything where I was, but that was expected because there was nothing there anyway. And I think that was possibly the greatest asset for me, just not knowing.

I've always felt happy in my own company. It's only when I get around other people that things get sticky.

All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

I think being still and being silent and finding your own space is so important in this hectic world.

I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.

In sleep, we leave behind the sensory stimulation of the outside world.

Outside stimulation makes me nervous!

I'm from the middle of nowhere in Somerset, and if I have too much stimulus or chaos, then I tend to not be as creative.

My morning runs have become one of the only times I have during the week to reflect and take stock.

I have such difficulty calming down - my stomach, my head, reality, everything. That is the reason I live in Faro.

Man is alone everywhere. But the solitude of the Mexican, under the great stone night of the high plateau that is still inhabited by insatiable gods, is very different from that of the North American, who wanders in an abstract world of machines, fellow citizens and moral precepts.