Quotes About Solitude

She would be half a planet away, floating in a turquoise sea, dancing by moonlight to flamenco guitar.

The way of a canoe is the way of the wilderness, and of a freedom almost forgotten.

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

Where else can you be as free as by yourself in the middle of nowhere, or in the middle of the ocean, or on the peak of a mountain. Adventure is freedom.

Freedom' is the most expensive possession there is; it has to be paid for with loneliness.

I need this wild life, this freedom.

Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom.

There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

There are days when I think: what if I just checked out? What if I grew a beard and went off to live somewhere remote? I have often wondered about the freedom that would bring.

The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom.

To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.

Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know

See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.

My soul has gained the freedom of the night

The smell of baking bread wafts up to my cell and reminds me of the days I walked freely in the cafes. This tears me apart more than my fear of death or the solitude in which I now find myself.

To be free, a man must be free from his brothers. That is freedom. That and nothing else.

No phone. No pool. No pets. No cigarettes. Ultimate freedom... No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become Lost in the Wild.

Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It's freedom.

Freedom of being alone is intoxicating.

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.