Solitude Travel Quotes

#1. If you can overcome the occasional angst, you may have the chance to see some interesting things, perhaps the same things the tour buses bring people to see, but purified by solitude, if you will. In any case, do not stay in the hotel room. That is the only place you are vulnerable.

James Salter

#2. The adhesion of Coca-Cola is an affirmation of the expansion of the Global Pact and the importance it assumes worldwide, especially on the US market where more and more enterprises have decided to get involved.

George Kell

#3. I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.

Mo Udall

#4. The Sierra, a region so quiet and pristine that we have the sense of being the first human beings ever to set foot in it. We fall silent ourselves in its midst, as if conversation in a place of such primaevl solitude would be like talking in church.

Jim Fergus

#5. Yet the room was all in all to me, Estella being in it.

Charles Dickens

#6. His boredom was like a nostalgia for the whole world. He was homesick for everywhere but here.

Christopher Isherwood

#7. I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.
(Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787)

Thomas Jefferson

#8. Being a writer usually entails a fairly quiet life. However much travel one might do, however many tours and appearances, the job entails solitude: long hours in libraries, long hours at a desk.

Jill Paton Walsh

#9. babies over the years.

Tracy Rees

#10. The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.

Lillian Hellman

#11. Legs: the symbol of my solitude, my individual path, my uniqueness. Arms: the symbol of togetherness, my connection to others, my belonging to the human race. My legs make me who I am; they create my solitary path. My arms make me who I belong to; they connect me to the world.

Nicos Hadjicostis

#12. I took only one suitcase, and a cosmetics case for medicines but I was worried about books. Solitude is all right with books, awful without.

Martha Gellhorn

#13. Although I had savored my solitude, there was a big difference between enjoying time to myself and feeling lonely. I had no reason to feel lonely because Lord Krishna, my friend and ever well-wisher, was with me the entire time.

Samita Sarkar

#14. I would make a HORRIBLE outlaw. I can plan the crime perfectly, but I'd also need to plan the outcomes to make it work.

Michelle M. Pillow

#15. Drifting across the vast space, silent except for wind and footsteps, I felt uncluttered and unhurried for the first time in a while, already on desert time.

Rebecca Solnit

#16. My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a Quaker.

Woody Allen

#17. The federal government has never created one job that is sustainable long term. It creates government project work but not creating real work where people are.

Michael Steele

#18. There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.

Regina Brett

#19. I went to collect the few personal belongings which ... I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.

Colette