Quotes About Solitude

shade of a wall, listlessly fingering their prayer beads

En cuanto a mí, es hora de marcharme. Me queda poco tiempo y deseo pasarlo solo. No me busques, por favor. Es lo último que te pido.

Quiet is peace. Tranquillity. Quiet is turning down the VOLUME knob on life. Silence is pushing the OFF button. Shutting it down. All of it.

Sometimes loneliness is an emergency situation

how lovely it was to sit quietly anchored in one place.

Big lots,' I said, seeing the eighty-year-old oaks and shady lawns. The houses were set way back and had iron fences and stone drives. The harder to hear your neighbors scream, my dear,' was David's answer, and I sent my head up and down in agreement.

Though no one had been buried here for almost thirty years, the grass was mown by yours truly. I felt a tidy graveyard made a happy graveyard.

When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most of the last part of the descent, and collapsed on the Rongbuk glacier, and he was crawling over it on hands and knees when the woman who was his entire support team reached him; and he looked up at her out of a delirium, and said, "Where are all my friends?

That was how humans knew each other. Tiny fractions of their lives intersected or were known in any way to anybody else. It was much like living alone in the universe. Which was strange. A justification for living with friends, for marrying, for sharing rooms and lives as much as possible. Not that this made people truly intimate; but it reduced the sensation of solitude.

He came to realize that no one was watching him, no one was listening. The tiny imaginary audience inside his head did not exist; no one watches our life movies.

Something strange happened to me out there in the desert; I don't know what.

We are all alone in our own life-world, flying through the universe at great speed. Humans are lucky not to face that. If they don't.

She walked through the city, trying to get away from herself.

Oh I miss you Hetti Moore But there's no one here left to tell - The world has gone black before my eyes.

The tiny imaginary audience inside his head did not exist; no one watches our life movies.

You never see anything like it where you live, this I can guarantee. Not one person in 10,000 lives in a place where the stars are visible like they are in the Sierra at night. Dark skies (meaning away from cities), 10,000 feet above sea level: that means thousands of stars. Watch for half an hour and see several meteors streak across the sky, sometimes at cosmological speeds, faster than anything you'll ever see by day.

Serena was forty, had never been married, and was lonelier

Serena was forty, had never been married, and was lonelier than she'd ever been in her life.

At 4 o'clock in the morning while the world sleeps off its judgment... (page 214)

You walk down the street and people are just graveyards, really.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

I felt pleasantly empty, untouched by everything around me and happy to be unseen by all.

There was a rock in front of my hut, a tall, gray rock. By its looks it seemed to be well-disposed toward me...

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.