Anne Morrow Lindbergh Quotes

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

I have my best ideas when I am alone.

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 great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.

As a writer, I'm mostly at my desk, staring out my window. No one sees me.

When a man is extremely lonely, he starts discovering himself.

Writing in my closet, it's a small space but it made a lot of room in my mind.

Maybe I don't need a relationship after all, she thought. Maybe thinking about these conversations was just as good as having them. She could sit in her Honda in the dark and experience whatever kind of life she wanted. Sometimes you think, Hey, maybe there's something else out there. But there really isn't. This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live.

I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.

Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.

A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness!

Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.

There is some liberation in the freedom of being totally alone and really going for it.

I have a room all to myself; it is nature.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

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

As an only child lacking siblings and playmates, I was alone a great deal of the time. Much of this was spent reading virtually anything I could get my hands on.

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.