Quotes About Solitude

Civilization is vastly overrated.

I was an only child, eventually.

Just remember, we're all in this alone.

If you don't Understand the color of Darkness and Loneliness Then you must be Blind

Abbey relaxed, grateful not only that someone had thought to throw a party for her, but that she had been able to escape attending.

alone but trying to survive alone.

In other words, he was the tree in the forest that silently fell--when no one was around to be crushed.

At my place I can really tell when winter has come.. It's when sunlight is pathetically crawling in my courtyard, incapable of reaching my window anymore.

I'm keeping myself to myself. And I like it that way. I'm not hunting. I'm the opposite of a - what would a male cougar be? Is there such a thing? Whatever it is, I'm not that.

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The Musical.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand.

Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

Writing is a job, a talent, but it's also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon.

When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.

To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

Anything seems possible at night when the rest of the world has gone to sleep.

The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.

I've always been introverted and so from a very young age I would play different scenarios in my head and let my imagination run free.

Imagination is something you do alone.

Sometimes I fall into the trap of keeping too much to myself, but I think it's important to preserve certain things, it leaves something to the imagination.

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination.