Arthur Phillips Quotes

So it always is: when you escape to a desert the silence shouts in your ear.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

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

I feel calm when I'm on my own.

You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn to live alone in silence.

I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.

I just want to be left alone.

Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.

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.

Now, to be properly enjoyed, a walking tour should be gone upon alone.... Freedom is of the essence, because you should be able to stop and go on and follow this way or that as the freak takes you.... There should be no cackle of voices at your elbow to jar on the meditative silence of the morning.

I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.

Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real.

It is best to meet in a cul-de-sac, A palace of velvet With windows of mirrors. There one is safe, There are no family photographs, No rings through the nose, no cries.

Better, Cilla thought, to be alone on a quiet night than to be alone in a crowd. Much better.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

Solitude is independence.

I've been able to carve out spaces for myself. At Sundance, I'm in the mountains - my property is private. I get on a horse and ride for three, four hours. Sometimes five. I get lost. But when I'm in, I'm in.

At sea, I feel comfortable and I come to rest.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

I find music distracting - it takes me out of my head. What I love so much about skiing is the peacefulness.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

I have no family to take care of.

You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.

Living by myself out in Malibu has been really good. I kind of have my freedom; I've got a whole house to myself. The tough part comes when sometimes, you know, you get pretty lonely.

I just want to be on my own branch twittering.