Quotes About Solitude

Every morning, after a few sips of coffee and a bit of small talk, each of us retreats with our books, and travels centuries away from this place.

The inner world: those spiritual apartments to which we are reluctant to admit strangers.

My only ritual is making sure everyone leaves me alone.

I work best without distractions. Do Not Disturb signs are made for someone like me. I'm baffled by writers who prefer to write in Starbucks.

To forget the whole world is easy; to make the whole world forget you is hard.

In the midst of darkness, he alone sees the dawn; in the midst of the soundless, he alone hears harmony.

Si tu veux trouver la paix, immerge-toi dans la bienveillance, éteins tous les désirs dans ton coeur, retire-toi dans la solitude

When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.

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

I'm sure I'm not the only wife who feels that—the small relief at his absence. I love him very much, I do; but the house to yourself … No need for conversation or company or the press of his presence

she learned words that rolled from her tongue when no one was listening. Firns and striations. Cirques and moraines. Adulation. Sublimation. She fell asleep to their music, and she woke to it. Chatter marks, eskers, and drumlins. Truncated spurs. Corries and tarns. Kames. Eolian loess. Katabatic winds.

There is no one I find as tiresome as myself. Talk about ubiquitous. It's so difficult to find someplace quiet apart from myself, hard to keep me out of the room for even a moment. I just keep following myself around wherever I go, monotonously chirping.

Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them.

As summer turns to fall, Vincent, at twenty-six, is alone.

Next year he would suggest they hire a chalet on the edge of an icy fjord in Norway, as far away from the Jacobs family as possible.

She is drinking peach tea in the plaza and she is too hot because her blue and black checked shirt is for winter not for summer in Andalucía. I think she thinks she's a cowboy in her work shirt, always alone with no one to look at the mountain horizon at night and say my god those stars.

Too much of oneself can be projected into the silence

It was past dark when I reached the city and I'd mostly shoved my ghosts back into their graves. I let the gray mare pick her own pace and browse in the grain fields along the way.

He knows solitude. He knows its pleasure and its power. He knows it is a home you can occupy.

a lonely old man.

I enjoy people, I enjoy a good conversation and doing something together, but I don't require it in my week. I do need several hours of quiet.

You are at your best, Ann, when you are alone with God. That's probably true of every Christian to one degree or another.

Adakalanya kesendirian menjadi hadiah ulang tahun yang terbaik. Keheningan menghadirkan pemikiran yang bergerak ke dalam, menembus rahasia terciptanya waktu

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.