Need for Solitude Quotes

All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.

Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.

People run away to be alone,' he said. Some people had to be alone.

Part of me has always been a private person.

I'm a bit of an introvert, so after talking for an hour and then shaking hands and taking pictures with the people who came out, I kind of need to be alone for a bit to get away from all stimuli.

I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you want to be wholly in the world you are writing about, that it would take two days to get the visitor's voice out of the house so that you could listen to your own characters again?

There's a time in everybody's life they really don't want to talk to people: they want to get away from talking or being on the phone and stuff.

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

I can't have a lot of people around me all the time. It really bugs me out that I have that many people. I need to be by myself.

I am not made to be pulled into the public as a person. I feel threatened there.

I wouldn't say I'm a shy person, but I like my privacy.

Hey, Macey, sorry to drop in but Cammie just had to be alone with me. You know how she gets.

Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.

To tell you the truth, I don't like talking too much once I leave this booth. I'm talked out.