Dorothea Benton Frank Quotes

I think that occasionally running away and crashing where people can't find you is important.

Far from the world I walk, and from all care.

I haven't found one place in the world yet where I could disappear.

That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life.

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've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.

Running is the one part of my life in which I fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the observed.

I secretly enjoy being alone - hiking alone, skiing alone, walking along the beach alone, going to movies alone. Do not get me wrong, I like sharing my life with other people, but sometimes I really enjoy being as alone as possible.

Every day I wake up in Paris, it's real tranquillity. No pressure. I'm out of the grasp of people. I don't have a phone, and I drift a little bit.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

I genuinely love to be by myself, but at the same time, it's such a relief to know that I have another person's head who I can go into and whose life I can live. It's kind of an escape route, almost like therapy. It's refreshing to know that I can go back to a place where I don't have to be myself.

Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.

What dark secrets do you keep hidden from the world? Where would you go if no one could find you? What would you do if no one could see you?

When I go biking, I am mentally far far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else's heart.

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

Was it so much to ask just to be left alone?

Whenever the pressure of our complex city life thins my blood and numbs my brain, I seek relief in the trail; and when I hear the coyote wailing to the yellow dawn, my cares fall from me - I am happy.

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.

A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.

The only peace is being out of earshot.

Hopefully everybody will just let me get on with my life. I'm going to.

But Portugal has a peaceful feel about it. I sit on the terrace overlooking the vineyard there and I feel cut off from the world. You need that sort of thing.

I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

I feel calm when I'm on my own.