Quotes About Solitude

Thanks to the greatly improved possibility of communication, we overrate its importance. Even stronger, we underrate the importance of isolation.

Along with this rapid growth of forms of communication at our disposal - be it fax, phone, email, internet or whatever - human solitude will increase in direct proportion.

Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone.

If you think about computer programming, it's as antisocial as it gets.

Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me

I never use a computer.

I have one computer that my wife gave me. All I know how to do, and I do it every day, is play Spider Solitaire. And I don't have a cell phone.

I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.

I dont watch TV. I dont use a computer, a fax or a cellphone.

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.

Traveler is my only companion; I may also say my pleasure. He and I, whenever practicable, wander out in the mountains and enjoy sweet confidence.

May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.

The person who said that it is lonely at top has no idea what the view looks like from above. ~ Aarush Kashyap

Feeling LOW? Go on mountains.

If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.

Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

Stand for right, even if you stand alone.

True courage is to stand against evil, even when we stand alone.

Solitude is one of our great superpowers... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions.

Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.

One should have the courage of one's loneliness.

He who is ready to despair in solitary peril, plucks up a heart in the presence of another. In a plurality of comrades is much countenance and consolation.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone.