I like peace and solitude and silence.
But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.
A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.
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.
Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.
Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.
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 like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.
'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.
I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
I think I definitely like the solitude of golf.
In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.
For me, writing a novel goes on for years, and the solitude goes on, too. It tends to swallow me at times. I know it's a problem when my husband sends the dog in to retrieve me.
I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementia sufferer leads to a peculiar kind of loneliness.
There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.
Solitude is un-American.
