Knut Hamsun Quotes

I like to take walks in the park by myself, where no one can bother me and I can think.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?

I feel calm when I'm on my own.

By all means use some time to be alone.

I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature.

I aspire only to silence.

Now that I'm older, I have a much better appreciation of nature, and I love being alone.

In my down time, I'm a homebody. I like to do a walkabout. I like my alone time.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

I personally think that's incredibly therapeutic to just be alone in your own thoughts and not be freaking out.

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

I always wanted to live alone for a month in a lakeside cabin. In my fantasy, I enter a state of perfect peace and grow my own kale and stuff, but in real life, I think I might be very bored after four days.

I feel like I live a pretty quiet life. I like to focus on work and friends, and I love being in nature.

The very pointlessness of a sea walk is it's attractiveness to me.

I'm a guy that likes to sit in the quiet and think about things, and sometimes it's way more relaxing to have dead silence.

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

Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is not to be arrived at, but let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive, budding patiently under the eye of Apollo, and taking hints from every noble insect that favours us with a visit - sap will be given us for meat and dew for drink.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.

Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

By all means use sometimes to be alone.

The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

I like to be alone. I am focused on what I am doing. I feel the nature and I feel my body. It's so simple.