Melissa Gilbert Quotes

A life without a lonely place, that is, without a quiet center, becomes destructive.

I love silence.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside.

I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.

Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.

I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in a past stacked among your pillows.

Spare a thought for the poor introverts among us. In a world of party animals and glad-handers, they're the ones who stand by the punch bowl. In a world of mixers and pub crawls, they prefer to stay home with a book. Everywhere around them, cell phones ring and e-mails chime and they just want a little quiet.

I just like to think rather than talk. But I enjoy everyone's company.

In spite of being professionally gregarious, in my nonpaid hours I'm a bit of a hermit. After being around a crew of fifty people for twelve hours a day on a film set, I really like my alone time, and as always, I abhor small talk.

Listen to the sound of silence.

I had a lot of alone time with no brothers or sisters running around, or anything. I would just sit and imagine things, all the time.

I remember being alone a lot as a child, and I still love to be alone.

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

I just like to be alone sometimes and think.

I'm not a very glamorous person. I like to just sit alone in a room and read a book or meditate.

Don't get me wrong: if I'm having fun, I'm going to have fun. But I need a lot of quiet time.

As a writer, I spend a lot of time alone, and I like it. I'm also a long-distance runner, and I love long, solo road trips; I can drive literally all night, drinking coffee, and not even listening to the radio, just strangely content sifting through the random thoughts in my own head.

Solitude helps you reflect.

It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you’ve learned about the grand themes of life.

What we really have to do is take a day and sit down and think. The world is not going to end or fall apart. Jobs won't be lost. Kids will not run crazy in one day. Lovers won't stop speaking to you. Husbands and wives are not going to disappear. Just take that one day and think. Don't read. Don't write. No television, no radio, no distractions. Sit down and think. . . . Go sit in a church, or in the park, or take a long walk and think. Call it a healing day.

I'm with people all the time so I often go away on my own.