Hildur Gudnadottir Quotes

A writer needs a life of introspection.

Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about if I was busy romping around with a brother and sister.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

I've really taken time to dive into my heart and my emotions a little more. I think, before, I was a little nervous to open up that box and go, 'What's in there,' you know? Now, that's what's made the best music, and that's what I've been able to pull out of parts of myself that I never knew existed.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.

If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced.

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.

Certain things are so important that they need to be discovered alone.

And so I learned what solitude really was. It was raw material - awesome, malleable,older than men or worlds or water. And it was merciless - for it let a man become precisely what he alone made of himself.

People don't acknowledge loneliness in themselves, and don't appreciate its benefits, the reflection and attentiveness that come with it, the deepened acquaintance with oneself.

In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.

I have no choice sometimes, but there's something about being alone. When I'm alone I might not speak for 24 hours, but you're totally seeing things. It's a pretty cool experience.

Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.

Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.

Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience.

I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

I spent a lot of my childhood in my own head, making up stories. I didn't have a lot of outside influences, so I was able to make my own decisions about what I wanted to do.

I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.