Quotes About Solitude

There are days when you seek the company of your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone.

Build your film on white, on silence and on stillness.

be sure of having used to the full all that is communicated by immobility and silence.

There's not a ship in sight; And as the sun goes under Thick clouds conspire to cover The moon that should rise yonder. Thou art alone, fond lover.

He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.

Setebos, Setebos, and Setebos!'Thinketh, He dwelleth i' the cold o' the moon.

Who hears music, feels his solitude Peopled at once.

I give the fight up: let there be an end, A privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.

I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva's tower...I live still a collegiate student...and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi theatrum [sufficient entertainment to myself], sequestered from those tumults and troubles of the world...aulae vanitatem, fori ambitionem, ridere mecum soleo [I laugh to myself at the vanities of the court, the intrigues of public life], I laugh at all.

Melancholy can be overcome only by melancholy.

He became reflective and, somehow, withdrawn [zamknutym]. He gave up games but not books, and would go off in a corner and read assiduously."[127] Thus, young Djugashvili began to show the reticence and brooding aloofness from others that would characterize him in later years.

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

The universe, it seemed, was full to brimming with lonesome places.

Create Mental Space from the Group

He lived alone, in a small house full of books, and did nothing all day except read and think—a most dangerous occupation for a man, which in my experience leads invariably to dyspepsia and melancholy

He sought refuge in his books

Aunque un hombre ascendiera a los cielos y contemplase las maravillas del universo y la belleza de las estrellas, el hermoso paisaje no le produciría regocijo alguno si hubiera de guardárselo para sí. Y si, por el contrario, tuviera a su lado a alguien a quien describirle semejante espectáculo, se colmaría de dicha. La naturaleza aborrece la soledad.

He looked like a lodger who always kept himself to himself, or a nightwatchman who disappeared in the morning as soon as the day shift arrived.

There had been no wolves, of course. Not in a city like this. He wished it did not feel so – alone.

Aan'allein morirá el día que sepa que habéis muerto.

He needed to drink in winter, till he made winter's heart seem Sunday noon.

But what Ramanujan wanted more, more than anything, was simply the freedom to do as he wished, to be left alone to think, to dream, to create, to lose himself in a world of his own making.

Summer nights held a special kind of loneliness that gave rise to strange imaginings. One walked the beach alone and thought too much.

warmed by the cold sea around him.