Quotes About Isolation

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

Sometimes I just need solitude, which is really rather nice.

Solitude helps you reflect.

I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that's becoming a very precious and rare commodity.

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.

The myth of my solitude makes me laugh.

There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

There's a difference between loneliness and solitude. You pursue solitude, I think. But loneliness is a completely different isolating thing.

Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.

I didn't choose solitude.

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.

We leave TVs on in our house. I listen to my record player constantly to just hear music. I'm really intrigued by this idea of solitude.

The rigors of creativity - the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude - do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a cost; a cost that isn't for everyone.

I sort of came from a big family - eight kids - and I guess I always, more than most people, really revel in privacy and solitude sometimes.

Often, marriage was solitude, with company.

Growing up a lonely only child prepared me for the years of solitude spent as a writer; years spent in the company of people who don't exist, imaginary people you have conversations with. It's a paid form of madness, this writing stuff.

I think I definitely like the solitude of golf.

I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

I can't do solitude.