Rebecca Solnit Quotes

Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island.

To an outsider, Abilene was like a small landfall in the Sargasso Sea - remote, laconic, and forever closed to strangers.

Wyoming - God bless you in Wyoming - it's very boring, and it's the most isolated place on Earth.

It's the silence I imagine in the rest of the world, the silence of an endless ocean and uninhabitable island, a silence that can be seen from space.

There is something about silence and being in the middle of nowhere that is really very attractive.

Loneliness is an aspect of the land.

I am here, alone, at the end of the world. I reach out and touch nothing.”.

There are degrees and kinds of solitude. I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have.

My land is bare of chattering folk; / the clouds are low along the ridges, / and sweet's the air with curly smoke / from all my burning bridges.

I don't believe any pair of people had been more removed physically from the rest of the world than we were.

I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet - something I don't get very often.

I don't have many people showing up at my door. Very few people come out. When they do, I get a little suspicious. I live way up on a hill, way, way back in the country.

Not a living thing was to be seen and the cottages that sat huddled close to the ground remained fast shut; the smoke from the chimneys alone still gave a sign of life.

I'm from a very, very rural place. There's really nobody out there, just roads and farms.

Our little house was way back in the country. We had one house close to us, and hell the next one would've been a mile. If you got sick, you could holler and wouldn't nobody hear you.

It's lonely up here.

The desert feels Irish in a way - lonely and barren.

I became a recluse many times and enjoyed a private life I didn't have during the '60s.

It gets very lonely out on the road some times.

I spent my whole childhood trying to find places to be on my own. I used to sit on the water tank in the attic or in the dog's kennel. I was quite a strange child.

Sickness is a place, ... and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow.

You've built your homeyou've fledged your birdsyou've beaten the windwith your bonesyou've finished alonewhat no one began