Solitary Experience Quotes

I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.

Dance music tends to be a solitary affair.

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

No one's on at my time but infomercials.

On my first bowhunt on the property a few years back, I was on my own for twenty-two days and killed an amazing thirty-three head of big game. I'm surprised I even came home. I was in heaven.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

When I sing, it's the most solitary state: just me, and the microphone, and the holy spirit. It's not about notes or scales, it's all about emotion.

I love to go see films, even on my own. I just walk to the nearest cinema. There's nothing better than watching a movie alone; you can just sit there and zone in.

After twelve years in prison, I think I have listened to the radio maybe 30-40 times in all, and only when I have been without even a TV.

I alone, as the sharer of their way of life, presented a replica of childhood.

For me, acting has often been solitary. You're all together, and then boom, you're gone.

The writing process for me is pretty much always the same - it's a solitary experience.

As President, I was able to save with the stroke of the pen a hundred million acres of wilderness area in Alaska. This is the kind of thing that is is gratifying to a President, but to be on a solitary stream with good friends, with a fly rod in your hand, and to have a successfull or even an unsuccessful day-they're all successful-is an even greater delight.

People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?

The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems as often attendant upon reality as being in company is attendant upon the flight from reality.

I always loved that solitary experience of making things. There's a solitary aspect to animating... It's ultimately the animator and the puppet coaxing a performance out of it.

I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.

I loved languages, and loved learning languages. It was fantastic. But I was alone there. I remember that time as a real Virginia Woolf time. More than any language it was her language that influenced me.

I feel, in my live shows, I can be as dynamic as I want. It's my comfort zone. When I get in the studio, it's more of a solitary experience, which can be good creatively.

We each live in a private, distorted, individual world - stars turning in space, warmed for a moment by each other's light, then lost in infinite distance.

This suspension of one's own reality, this being entirely alone in a strange city (at times I wondered if I had lost the power of speech) is an enriching state for a writer. Then the written word ... takes on an intensity of its own. Nothing gets exteriorized or dissipated; all is concentrated within.

I'm always in the car in L.A., so I see the people I work with - and, thank God, I adore the people I work with - but it's a little lonely.

Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew.

One of the reasons the games business has become more popular and more broadly appealing is that it's gone from this very solitary experience to this very social experience.