Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes

It was so much easier to be alone, if one could find just the right location.

I love silence.

I feel calm when I'm on my own.

But I try to steal other moments. Sometimes I get up very early in the morning and enjoy a quiet house and cup of tea before the craziness begins. Other times, I'll take a quick walk on the beach. You can find peace in a few minutes.

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 like peace and solitude and silence.

I love to be alone, and I did as a child as well, especially if I was outside.

I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

Take time to be quiet.

No-one can function properly without occasional peace and quiet.

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence - free of the networks of dead speech.

Go to where the silence is and say something.

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

Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil, like bales unopen'd to the sun.

I love silence. And one of the paradoxes about the way I live and also about my work is that definitely one of the reasons I went into music, and especially into composing is that I love setting up an environment where I can be by myself for long periods of time and have everything as quiet as possible, either to think about sound, or to think about ideas, or just to focus on things that are important to me.

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

I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.

I love the way L A. leaves you alone. I can go home, read all day, and nobody bugs me.

When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

I love working alone. Crave it, in fact. I feel truly alive then.

Silence is best.

It would be nice to be a bit autonomous again, to enjoy something a bit quiet.

I'm very happy alone.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.