Michael Bastian Quotes

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

We need time to defuse, to contemplate. Just as in sleep our brains relax and give us dreams, so at some time in the day we need to disconnect, reconnect, and look around us.

It's important to have quiet time and isolation.

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

By all means use some time to be alone.

I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away from what you're working on.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

I really like to have a moment alone at the house, either in the morning or when I come home from work, when I can just zone out at my computer, relax, stare out the window, get into a 'Game of Thrones' episode, go up on my roof, whatever, then go out to dinner.

I like to read a lot, man. I read a lot and meditate and just go to that place. I'm not really an outdoorsman. I don't watch TV.

I sort of have stepped out of the public eye, and it's actually been really refreshing.

I'm pretty introverted and I spend a lot of time in books, a lot of time thinking and by myself, because that's what I enjoy to recharge.

When I get some time off, I don't even want to see people half the time.

Solitude is very restorative for me, especially because I spend so much time around other people and performing to people.

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

When I'm not working, I like to do things alone, just to take a breath.

When I am not acting or performing, I want to keep quiet and not to have a conversation.

Downtime for me is just when I can sit still.

I'm open, and I'm out there, but I also enjoy being alone, relaxing.

You may not enjoy loneliness, because loneliness is sad. But solitude is something else; solitude is what you look forward to when you want to be alone, when you want to be with yourself. So, solitude is something we all need from time to time.

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

I definitely have to pray and spend a lot of time by myself when I can.