Quotes About Solitude

And though I am estranged from the sun, I am a brightness, lit from within.

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.

We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.

others, like me, take refuge in books.

Next to your beloved, Khayyam, how alone you are! Now that she is gone, you can take refuge in her.

Au bout de tant d'années passées parmi les vêtements-Blancs, il avait réussi à se bâtir une solitude, cette chère et irremplaçable solitude dont il s'enveloppait comme d'une cotte de mailles. La partager, c'était la perdre. Chaque fois qu'il en avait le loisir, il aimait à retrouver son discret repaire, seul, sans un autre compagnon que lui même. Pourquoi encombrer ses oreilles d'un bourdonnement humain?

heureuse l'eau que nul ne boit. Bienheureux l'arbre qui fleurit loin des rout.

the most dreamless and introspective time of day, a sort of midnight of the daytime

This is what's beautiful about staying in a club or hotel: you're invisible, as is your neighbour.

The armchairs, with their flat, sedentary cushions, were designed for society, but the bed was made for solitude. It had a straitened and measured narrowness, an austere frame made to contain the curves of a single body, to circumscribe it, carry it, give it a place, and when I slept at night, I possessed it entirely.

While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.

I have been lonely in my life but never when drinking strong coffee, wearing my fleecy slippers, and standing in my own kitchen.

Wishin'   you were here don't place you in the old wing chair. Face you   in the photos, china, art on parlor walls. It's raining in my heart.

I had my own bed. I slept in it alone, except for those times when we needed—not sex—but sex was how we got there.

Prayer is not only a daily discipline that deepens our relationship with God; it also provides a way for us to be together in our aloneness.

Prayer is not only a daily discipline that deepens our relationship with God; it also provides a way for us to be together in our aloneness. Amen.

But he also fiercely guarded his time of quiet and reflection (as you will see in the following chapter), and he always, always took his time.

He didn't scream hysterically or stand up and kick the headstone or any of that. He put his face on his knees and listened as the wind from the mountains mercilessly leveled everything in its path. He remembered the person who had helped him fly with the wind instead of being beaten down by it, and he cried quietly into his knees, finally knowing how the big of the sky could make a person feel as alone as a heartbeat in space.

Besides that, Sebastian liked books —all kinds. He loved fiction, non-fiction, big picture art books, the smell, the feel, and the potential to sit down with a book, become lost within it and only surface hours later when you needed to pee. Books were the bestest of best friends —and they never bitched if you forgot their birthdays or decided not to call them for a month.

Private Blood-loss

Bumfuck Nowhere and Left Ass Cheek of Yemen.

Crick had arrived and stumbled into the house, intent on rest and quiet before he killed himself to escape the pain.

All alone in an empty room.

Moons decay. Stars explode. That leaves me where I am. All alone in an empty room.