Quotes About Solitude

Then she continued to walk away.

The sense that the only thing better than being alone would be to be with someone who made you feel as safe and comfortable as you did when you were alone. He rose on his elbow to look down at Olivia.

The sense that the only thing better than being alone would be to be with someone who made you feel as safe and comfortable as you did when you were alone.

It's said the difference between one friend and none is infinity.

What news? There's nothing to tell. I'm a nun.

Grigori não conseguiu se forçar a acenar de volta. Virou as costas e foi embora.

Pierre took his parcel and left. Now the shop contained only one customer.

He set out to walk. The

He did not look down at his book. He was happy with his thoughts. They were often enough for him, nowadays. His mind was like a house he had spent his life furnishing.

They wouldn't be so cocky if they knew what me and the moon have going.

Sometimes—after futile all-nights—deserts fill my work-house and smoking sand gets in my eyes . . . and I must split the swollen cabin to check the dawn, to find: the creek still parties with the moon . . . the thrusting pine and whippoorwills still celebrate the sun. It generally works, and things are cool, but sometimes—after cutting out—nothing out there happens but the night. And those days were best forgotten.

I turned, going back along the planks toward the idling pick-up without saying anything else. I just wanted to be away from people. I didn't want to have to avoid answering questions about what happened. I didn't want the questions.

And I lay awake for hours, hoping another phone call would give me that opportunity to be alone and unruffled with her.

I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company.

Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home.

But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.

Power is lonely. Power stands apart. I have power. Therefore, I'm lonely.

The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.

Silence is a place of great power and healing.

We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.

Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

we only shout when we neglect what silence can do

I don't know whether it is beautiful or sad, that I find such blissful happiness within the confines of my own mind, than I do in the reality that surrounds me.

When you sit alone and think out your thoughts … then that is your loudest cry!