I’ve always been a loner.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

I tend to stay up late, not because I’m partying but because it’s the only time of the day when I’m alone and don’t have to be performing.

I’m not a natural joiner.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

I’m a very private person. I don’t go out much. I’m home with kids. I go to work. I don’t really like being the focus of attention, which is why I like being behind the camera more.

I am a bit of a solitude person – a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don’t have any major friendships or relationships with people.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

I am rather inclined to silence.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

When I was growing up, I wasn’t an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn’t miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.

When I am working on a book or a story, I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you, and it is cool or cold, and you come to your work and warm as you write.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

I’m attracted to women who are smart and funny and ambitious and have lives of their own and great families. Isn’t that what attracts anyone?

I learned to fly a few years ago in England. It’s the only place I’m completely alone – up in the air, detached from everything.

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline… because you need to be alone to find out anything.

I’m not comfortable being around too many people. I don’t like being out in public too much. I don’t like going to bars. I don’t like doing celebrity stuff. So most of the characters I play are people who don’t always feel comfortable beyond their small circle of friends.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

I’m different from any other designer, businesswise, in that I’ve built this company up and I own it. I never had business hype behind me to promote my image… My image is real… I have never had marketing people telling me what to do.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

I’m an introvert… I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

I have an urge to communicate. I think I’m a change from what it would be like dating a normal guy who doesn’t talk too much.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

Solitude is independence.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

I love to be alone, and I did as a child as well, especially if I was outside.

I am alone a lot, which is good. I need that time to just be alone after a long day, just decompress. So, I go to either my house or the hotel, or my apartment, or whatever – wherever I am, I go home and I watch TV and I sit there, with my cat, and I just watch TV or go online, check my emails.

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.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

I’ve been called a recluse. There’s definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

Poland should be strong and prosperous and independent and play its proper role as a great nation in the heart of Europe.

In football, I don’t have a lot of friends. The people who I really trust, there are not many… Most of the time, I’m alone.

If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

I’m an old man, and all my life I’ve said that Notre Dame should remain independent because it’s a national school.

Many people would be surprised that, in fact, I’m quite shy.

I guess you’d call me an independent, since I’ve never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

Maybe ‚loner‘ is too strong a word, but I’ve always enjoyed being on my own.

I’d like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I’d like to know what happens.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

I’m very low-key. I don’t really blend in, so it’s difficult to go out in public. I like to do things that are kind of quiet, whether it’s a dinner at my house or a restaurant, or a movie night at home.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

There’s love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we’re alone in our heads.