Orlando Bloom Quotes

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality.

When I write down my thoughts, they do not escape me. This action makes me remember my strength which I forget at all times. I educate myself proportionately to my captured thought. I aim only to distinguish the contradiction between my mind and nothingness.

I was always trying, even in pure action movies, to find what was sensitive about the character more than the pure action.

I dream in color, and I have visions of feelings and energies that I would love to feel.

I've been trying to take this journey over the last four years of getting away from playing manipulative and villainous characters and playing characters that are affected by what happens to them as opposed to unaffected.

We all need poetry. The moments in our lives that are characterized by language that has to do with necessity or the market, or just, you know, things that take us away from the big questions that we have, those are the things that I think urge us to think about what a poem can offer.

Sameera, my character in 'Take Off,' was extremely intense.

I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the truths about life that are presented through them.

For me, Miranda has always been a much deeper character than the three-minute videos I put online.

As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet have not the slightest feeling for seclusion; for solitude, I maintain, when joined with a quiet contemplation of nature, a serene and conscious faith in creation and the Creator, and a few vexations from outside is the only school for a mind of lofty endowment.

In the private sanctuary of one's own conscience lies that spirit, that determination to cast off the old person and to measure up to the statue of true potential.

The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company

A poem is a place where the conditions of beyondness and withinness are made palpable, where to imagine is to feel what it is to be. It allows us to have the life we are denied because we are too busy living. Even more paradoxically, poetry permits us to live in ourselves as if we were just out of reach of ourselves.

Solitude is one of our great superpowers... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions.

Our busy lives force us to focus on things we do from day to day. But the development of character comes only as we focus on who we really are.

Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a locked cell, or, when it gets tougher still, the vague feeling of being buried alive-then don't be a writer.

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.

The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings.

In silence man can most readily preserve his integrity.

My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.

I stay true, because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character.

I don't seem to get solemn about it, and some people might not understand. That's why I never talk about it. I think it's all here -- in the mountains and the desert. I don't think God is a softie, either. In the end, it's better if people are forced back into -- well -- into being right, before they're too far gone. I think your temple is your everyday living.

I meditate each day. Going within alleviates tension and stress, and allows me to hear what the Universe wants me to know.