Pierre Loti Quotes

I remember when I was a child... walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity and pass through my body with a jolt that made my hair prickle.

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 nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.

It is a good idea to be alone in a garden at dawn or dark so that all its shy presences may haunt you and possess you in a reverie of suspended thought.

Being alone on the moors is scary; as the rain clouds settle in, it makes you realise your place in nature.

In my down time, I'm a homebody. I like to do a walkabout. I like my alone time.

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

I was an only child until I was 14, and there were no other kids around the area really. So I spent a lot of time on my own in the fields or by the lake, with just my imagination for company. I suppose I never wanted to let that part of me go.

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

For a while I couldn't leave the house by myself. Even if I was just grocery shopping alone, I'd get self-conscious.

We have all examined our past critically and are very much aware of even the unpleasant things. Now, we need to look at what we plan to do with the lessons we have learned from the past.

I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination.

I had a fear of being alone.

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

I always wanted to live alone for a month in a lakeside cabin. In my fantasy, I enter a state of perfect peace and grow my own kale and stuff, but in real life, I think I might be very bored after four days.

The past is always - one moment it's what happened three minutes ago, and one minute it's what happened 30 years ago. And they flow into each other in ways that we can't predict and that we keep discovering in dreams, which keep bringing up feelings and moments, some of which we never actually saw.

When you listen to records like 'Foreclosure,' that's like me sitting in a room by myself just rapping about things that's running across my mind and things that have been bothering me.

Directing is all tied up with childhood loneliness. It's such an odd thing to end up doing.

The thought of being on my own really terrified me. But then I realized being alone is really a cleansing thing.

Acting brings up a lot of the past. I use my memories, whether they're good or bad.

If I have a show at night, I like to spend the whole day alone in silence. I know that might be crazy.

I wish it wasn't so natural for me to dwell on the past.

Solitude sometimes is best society.