Quotes About Solitude

I find beauty in a very independent state. It lives quietly. It's there to be discovered.

What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?

Pity! The southerly trees have shed their leaves. Nobody comes to appreciate the mountain's beauty. Tomorrow I too will float away. My reflection gone from cool streams.

Only when the mind is completely alone can it know what is beauty, and not in any other state.

The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.

The night is my best friend. It calms the storm in my soul and it lets the guiding stars rise.

I think in the end we all know that our best friend is ourselves. We are born alone and we die alone. That's the journey.

Most photographers work best alone, myself included.

Hiking is the best workout!... You can hike for three hours and not even realize you're working out. And, hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.

In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude.

You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers their best opportunity to disclose themselves.

There are many ways to die in bed, but the best way is not alone.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

Owls are known as lonely birds; but it is not known that they have the forest as their best friend!

When you're feeling lonely and no one is around Remember to look inside yourself and a best friend will be found

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.

Bed is the best place for reading, thinking, or doing nothing.

I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.

Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin

I think I fish, in part, because it's an anti-social, bohemian business that, when gone about properly, puts you forever outside the mainstream culture without actually landing you in an institution.

There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.

I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else.

One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

What I do in my own time, is my business.