Quotes About Solitude

I appreciate not being interrupted in the middle of thinking about nothing.

Shhh," she wants to say to her husband as he speaks a pleasantry in her ear, "I am remembering being lonely.

You can appreciate things at four in the morning that would go right past you during the day.

It is not we who long for a day of rest, but the Sabbath spirit that is lonely and longs for us.

Six days a week the spirit is alone, disregarded, forsaken, forgotten.

Avoid popularity if you would have peace

He had no need to push the everyday world away from him. He just stepped out of it whenever he wished.

It was at that moment that I came to the conclusion that there is some link between plants and loneliness.

Why do you stay here? What's here, Rory? Peace, quiet, birds. Lots of birds.

The world was noisy . As Ciro looked around, he was the only person who seemed to be listening.

The worst punishment you can give a man is to isolate him. I've never seen one who can handle it.

There is nothing more peaceful than New York City at three A.M. It's the rest period before the madness begins at dawn.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams.

There was once a Charcoal-burner who lived and worked by himself. A Fuller, however, happened to come and settle in the same neighbourhood; and the Charcoal-burner, having made his acquaintance and finding he was

In the heart's wild space lies the space of wilderness. What won't one lose, what home one won't give forever!

Every day she waits for night-time. She goes to bed at half past eight because that is the earliest time she can imagine going to bed and because that means that the day is officially over and she doesn't have to do anything more about it. About anything.

I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.

Submerged, I have become a refugee from the visible world.

It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.

The sole cause of a man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by whom we are with, we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can inhibit us from observing others; we become taken up with adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, we have to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.

The destination was not really the point. The true desire was to get away—to go, as he concluded, 'anywhere! anywhere! so long as it is out of the world!

The twenty-four-hour diner, the station waiting room and the motel are sanctuaries for those who have, for noble reasons, failed to find a home in the ordinary world, sanctuaries for those whom Baudelaire might have dignified with the honorific 'poets'.