Quotes About Solitude

One of the interesting dichotomies of life is that you have to turn away from the world, in order to understand it better.

Reír, y el mundo reirá contigo. llorar, y llorar a solas. Cantas, y las montañas le echo usted. Suspiras, y se pierde en el aire. Os alegráis, y el mundo va a buscarte. lloras, y el mundo se irá. Usted puede estar en sintonía con el mundo, su gente y la naturaleza que te rodea. Usted es el origen, y usted es el centro de su felicidad y bienestar. Por lo que agradecer y disfrutar de la vida, todos los días, ya que viene a ti. Animarme, mi amigo!

You laugh, and the world laughs with you. You cry, and you cry alone. You sing, and the mountains would echo you. You sigh, and it's lost in air. You rejoice, and the world will seek you. You grieve, and the world will walk away. You can be in sync with the world, its people and nature around you. You are the origin, and you are the center of your happiness and well being. So be thankful and enjoy life, each and every day as it comes to you. Cheer up, my friend!

A few terminally ill persons I have known have quietly ascended their favorite mountain late in the day and made sure that they were above the freezing line for that particular time of the year. They used public transport to get there so that a parked car would not be spotted. Then, wearing light clothing, they sat down in a secluded spot to await the end.

If you can't stand to be alone with your thoughts, maybe there's something wrong with your thoughts.

Serpine: No, my old enemy, I think for the moment anyway, we're all alone. And you have something I want Skulduggery: A winning sense of style?

isolation without end was a dangerous thing.

Don't you all have somewhere else to be? It's not that I want you to go, it's just that I don't want you to stay.

Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.

What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge

If you are bombarded by so many thoughts in solitude, you are in ignorance. If you are calm even amidst a crowd then you are in knowledge.

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self.

I live in the crowds of jollity not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope without friends without books even without music as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

Loneliness is a required course for leadership.

Physically, teachers are often alone in their own classrooms with no other adults for company. Psychologically, they never are.

Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage.

To appreciate the beauty of a snow flake, it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

I am learning how to be alone without being lonely; I am learning how to be lonely without losing my mind.

Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.

Since I've learned to be silent, everything has come so much closer to me.