Quotes About Solitude

I've never been comfortable with sharing anything: I was a single child.

Mostly I stay at home from the morning until 5 P.M., and I only go out for fittings and shoots because I work at home. I like to be alone.

When you're by yourself you have to sort out everything like the shopping and looking after the house.

I love to go out. I can go out shopping with myself. I love to do things alone. I spend a lot of time with myself.

Other people sing in the shower, but I don't.

I don't sing in the shower.

I spend an awful lot of time by myself and enjoy that.

I'm much calmer when there's no TV or music playing in the background.

Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer.

When I left The Royal Ballet, I didn't have anybody to talk to.

I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.

I actually barely ever go on the Internet.

As a child, I always wanted to be the last one to take a bath because I knew I could close the door and spend hours just having my bath and singing.

I'm a person who takes baths in the dark, alone.

I like to read in the dark. I like to go into the bathtub, turn out all the lights, and in the dark, read my books.

Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.

The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

I've learnt to be happy by myself.

It can be kind of gruesome at times, making things alone.

Nobody told me that you needed to learn to be alone to enjoy to love your own company - to find peace and to be yourself.

While growing up, I used to go to the beach, as I used to find peace there.

I don't really go to the beach.

I go to the beach with some family. I like to go there because I'm alone and I can think.