Quotes About Solitude

I like to go to my simple cottage by the ocean or, really, any beach!

I really feel that my body craves to be in the mountains or by the ocean or in the countryside.

I do enjoy being at the ocean, like most people, but not so much being on the ocean.

The oceans are the last free place on the planet.

My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.

Writing is this odd act, right? To sit and type, or write by hand, or whatever people do. And it requires a real discipline because it is really a sheer act of will that you're creating something, and you're doing it by yourself.

In an odd sort of way, the computer and the Internet is the hermit's ideal form of communication. You don't have to see anyone. To send an email, you don't have to talk to anyone. You can just send it, and they'll read it on their own. The Internet has been really good for hermits.

Oh, I never fit in anywhere. I'm a loner. I don't even have many friends.

Oh, I think I'd be a lighthouse keeper. I was living on my own for a lot through COVID, and I think I was quite good at it.

After being in a studio, working on games stuff, I'm like, 'Oh my God, I wish I could just sit in my room for a week and listen to music and draw by myself.'

I'm not one that really soaks up the limelight. I'm OK with kind of escaping it.

I'm one of those people who would be OK with fading back into the background a little bit.

I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.

The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

I don't like big events and crowded areas. I'm almost a curmudgeonly old man in that aspect. I've been like that forever.

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

I am older than everyone I ever knew. All my dogs are dead. Half a dozen cats, parakeets... all gone.

So I just sat in bed for six months - I literally didn't leave the house - and it was the first time that I'd actually experienced being depressed. I'd be sad on and off but I'd never experienced actual depression. Like, crying for no reason. It was really horrible.

I have been a loner... even when I was working, you would hardly see me at any parties - unless once a year, if I have to attend some big function.

Maybe one day I can have a reunion with myself.

Oh, my God, I literally only have, like, one friend that I'm actually completely, like, myself with.

One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing.

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

I mean one of the things about being alone is that you've no people to define yourself off, I mean, people are like all-round mirrors, because let's face it, we don't often see ourselves all round in a mirror anyway, do we.