Quotes About Solitude

To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.

When faced with emotional pain, I become still for hours, sometimes days, doing absolutely nothing. It helps me get to the truest source of my suffering.

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.

Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories.

There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm.

A brook can be a friend in a special way. It talks to you with splashy gurgles. It cools your toes and lets you sit quietly beside it when you don't feel like speaking.

Go quietly alone, no harm will befall you.

I am haunted by waters.

Thanks to the growing strength of environmental organizations, there will always be some back country to provide us with a touch of wonder and a breath of fresh air.

We need the tonic of wildness.

Morandi suggests we are all single in this world, hoping for independent repose. But our best opportunity for a community of excellence depends upon a collection of enlightened individuals.

There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.

Everyone should just drive out to the Mojave Desert and just experience it, and it's a fun place to live.

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

I just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a book, having a live experience. That's really what I crave, and I always have done.

Only alone can you go into eternity. Only alone can you feel the transcendental light. It is not a shared experience because if it is shared, you are down in duality.

No matter how enormous a novel may become, the physical act of reading determines that there's no way it can become a communal experience. To read is intimate. It's almost masturbatory.

I find filmmaking to be a super lonely, alienating experience.

The 30-year-old male is about as far away from Valentine's Day as you can get in the human experience.

Solitude is the place of purification.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.