Quotes About Solitude

Timeless, and loveless, this light touches me. I won't need anything else.

Didn't want anyone to find me, not yet.

Can't I go lonely to bed?

You used to take my breath away. Now no one does.

I don't want to bother anyone anymore, I try to stay still.

Oh but I need my lone self!

I'm the being for whom nothing happens: now nothing happens to you.

I have no skills; I have no hope; I don't want any hope. I simply want to sit here, in this calm.

I'm alone as usual impossibly nowhere or right here. I walked a path, formerly.

Everything I think's private. I don't want the dead or telepaths to hear my mind.

She could die now; no one would see it, her.

Deeper and deeper. No more lyric po- ems or love affairs.

There is no other in my dreams, no beloved, there's no love . . .

I want to be lawless; I want to be alone.

little distant sounds of shut-away singing

so by degrees I became invisible in that spotted sick-room light and nobody found me there.

not many of us left not much movement in the blackening lanes among a few low trees little flocks of orchids in the ditches nobody cares

cold nights without streetlights walking to the sea perhaps

and I who live in the basement one level down from the world

severed by light from myself not knowing but almost

not looking up but lost in pause

Three people in the snow getting rid of themselves breath by breath

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

longed for solitude, for space and breathing room without the thought of how someone else might be impacted. Traveling with others comes with a daily series of negotiations: Is the room temperature okay? What sites should we visit? What time should we have dinner? Can I sit quietly and read while you go out shopping? On and on. By default, I cater. And rather than feeling the need to accommodate, I wanted the beautiful freedom to choose, to please only myself.