Quotes About Solitude

Ah, do not mistake solitude for loneliness," he advised. "A man may be lonely in a crowd, or he can be quite content in the society of the natural world.

Sleep had crept in, and after a little while, she came for me too.

Lonesome is habit," she said with a shrug. "One that can be broken.

Brisbane and I passed a thoroughly satisfactory and entirely private evening in the solitude of our room. "Thank God for stout stone walls," he said at one point, and I heartily agreed.

I wondered if having conversations with your dog was less crazy than babbling to yourself when no one else was around. I guess it depended on whether or not the dog answered.

There's grief and then there's the loneliness of grief. The way it's just yours and yours alone.

Blessed books--they're a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.

But I didn't want to share everything yet… I needed that time alone with it first, that delicious time where you replay every moment, where you make what has happened more real and also less—it becomes fact the more you repeat it, but it becomes story, too.

Something has happened to her and about her, and yet it is hard to grasp this fact. Her run is larger than her, and yet her daily life is mostly just her solitary steps, the rhythm of them, her daily aches, her loneliness, and the flashes of the nightmares that she experiences daily. It seems that she's become a person with a message, but she's unclear what the message is. Maybe because the message is still fighting its way through the grief and guilt to get to her.

Maybe she's meant to be alone. Unmarried. Deliciously free of people's expectations. It sort of sounds like heaven, actually.

Silence is the best melody.

As long as you're with you, that's all that matters.

Loneliness is my worst enemy, but in the end he's usually my only real friend.

You know, memories. They're all I've got.

When words don't come easy, I make do with silence and find something in nothing." ~ Strider Marcus Jones, Poet

Silence is peace, silence is quiet, silence is calming, silence is what you can be.

If you're comfortable with solitude, being left out is not a problem

People should respect those who have the courage to go alone through life.

You have to be a light to yourself in a world that is utterly becoming dark.

Because at nightwhen others are sleeping, I drown myself in poetry.

If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears.

Books didn't make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.

Music, my rampart and my only one.

When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone.