Quotes About Solitude

The mountains were so wild and so stark and so very beautiful that I wanted to cry. I breathed in another wonderful moment to keep safe in my heart.

He pushed the coverlet halfway down his body and crossed his arms behind his head. Linc stared at the overhead fixture, his new best friend for the last several days--he'd actually felt like talking to it a few times.

She needn't have worried. It was her mind he wanted to reach, and nobody , by conversation, could ever reach Grace's mind. Like the grave, it was a "private place", and could not be shared.

Book Time When you find yourself hungry again And there's nothing good to eat-- This is book time. Pull out a book-- Sink your teeth into the think of it.

It's asking for trouble to listen to music alone.

A café is for "people who want to be alone but need company for it." –Noel Riley Fitch, Paris Café: The Select Crowd

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 people, then I go home alone.

On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.

imagine you are an astronaut alone in space. no planets in view. no spacecraft. no distant stars. no source of light. imagine the latent terror, the quiet of space, the strange sensation of floating, the unspeakable dark between wealth of stars.

What is first seen as a loss is now seen as a gain. For he finds solitude, not in far off, quite places; he creates it out of himself, spreads it around him, wherever he may be, because he loves it and slowly he ripens in this tranquility. For the inner process is beginning to unfold, stillness is extraordinarily important.

No one's here this time of year except caretakers: often alcoholic friends of the family who can't handle society, who hide and take care of mansions and animals. He

Juovuksissa taas, ja onko olemassa muuta kuin ikävä tyhjyydestä pois.

I just realized my lips are inside out. They should be turned inwards, because I spend most of my time talking to myself.

To be free is to have a zone around you that is private, where you can be with your own thoughts, your own expeirements, for a time, between confrontations with the larger world.

I still like to think of Richey as being holed up in a Welsh valley somewhere, with a pile of books and a dog.

I don't think I have a happy place. This possibility makes me ache.

Ask yourself: When was the last time you had three or even four completely uninterrupted hours to yourself and your work?

The ability to be alone with your thoughts is, in fact, one of the key advantages of working remotely. When you work on your own, far away from the buzzing swarm at headquarters, you can settle into your own productive zone. You can actually get work done—the same work that you couldn't get done at work! Yes

The ability to be alone with your thoughts is, in fact, one of the key advantages of working remotely.

No one knows who you are right now. And that's just fine. Being obscure is a great position to be in. Be happy you're in the shadows.

Off in the distance, the Ringer watched the Ford Tundra drive off into the night before it disappeared around a bend in the road. There were few lights

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

The certainty that someone will never come back," the narrator muses of the dead, "never speak again, never take another step…will never look at us or look away. I don't know how we bear it, or how we recover.