Quotes About Solitude

I have a best friend and he is me.

Loneliness is a poison, but aloneness is a catalyst.

Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself.

...and they buried him there, just off the trail, in a glade ten miles from the majestic Salween, a long way from home, but what dead man is not?

The silence of a mountain has the tranquility and serenity of peace.

I am strangely tired, not from having talked so much but at the mere thought of what I still have to say

I like walking in the solitary dark street than the crowded shining street.

Amidst a crowd of strangers, I still remain unknownto myself.

I often choose to be alone, but I never feel lonely.

I was up all night just to talk to myself about you.

Writing is like surfing on a wild sea, in the middle of a moonless night, in a hailstorm, on a deserted island.Yeah... that about sums it up.

I talk to myself, not because I'm lonely, but because sometimes I'm the only one who understands what I'm saying.

And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

And here in my isolation I can grow stronger. Poetry seems to come of itself, without effort, and I need only let myself dream a little while painting to suggest it.

No one but Night, with tears on her dark face, watches beside me in this windy place.

We cannot overlook the importance of wild country as source of inspiration, to which we give expression in writing, in poetry, drawing and painting, in mountaineering, or in just being there.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

Poetry is the dark side of the moon.

I used to do poetry and write stories and stuff - I never really had anybody standing over my shoulder, like, "What did you write? Let me hear it." I hate that type of stuff.

Poetry has ceased to be a public art and has become, as Whitehead said of religion, "What man does with his aloneness.

It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.

Poetry is when you talk to yourself.