Quotes About Solitude

Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future.

Take noise-cancelling headphones, a good book, and wear comfy clothes.

A bottle of wine was good company.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

Be good and you'll be lonesome

I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company.

I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.

When I'm away from basketball, I'm the biggest kid. I do a good job of keeping myself sane. But on the other hand, I'm more of a solitary guy, glad to be left alone.

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

But I do like churches. The way it feels inside. It feels good when you just sit there, like you're in a forest and everything's really quiet, expect there's still this sound you can't hear.

Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

A day in which you do goodness far away from the crowds is indeed a very good day!

If you've got a good book with you, you're never bored (or alone).

Why d'ye talk to yourself?' 'It assures me of a good listener.

To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.

Nothing. My father is very good at doing nothing. He calls it thinking.

All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

A studio is a good place to smoke your pipe.

I didn't have a good childhood because I never could get along with other kids. I was the child that sat in the corner eating lunch by herself.

I used to come here on my own sometimes... Id' stay down here for ages." Her voice was barely audible. "It's a good place for sadness.

I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it.