Quotes About Solitude

Bed is a good friend; book is a good friend; night is a good friend. Try to bring them all together.

Night is a very good and very close friend of a writer!

When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem.

Walking is very good for writers. There's something fundamentally useful about not talking to anybody, not looking at a screen, and being in nature - even if that nature is an urban environment.

The ideal companion in bed is a good book.

I only write maybe one or two songs every couple of years that I think are good enough to play alone without other stuff happening.

The good thing about breaking up is that you have nothing else to lose.

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.

Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. You are still in great company.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

I find that the three truly great times for thinking thoughts are when I am standing in the shower, sitting on the john, or walking. And the greatest of these, by far, is walking.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

One sign of a great actor is when he can be alone by himself on the screen, doing almost nothing, and producing one of a film's defining moments.

Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.

How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!

People like me, LB, the truly great ones ... we are always alone.

A great city is a great solitude.

I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.