Quotes About Solitude

The anguish of solitude rises up in me. When Kat is taken away I will not have one friend left.

I am aware that I, without realizing it, have lost my feelings -- I don't belong here anymore, I live in an alien world. I prefer to be left alone, not disturbed by anybody. They talk too much - I can't relate to them -- they are only busy with the superficial things

Kada nikoga ne voliš, lakše se podnosi samo?a.

Najzad, sasvim je dobro što imaju svoje važne sitnice koje ?uvaju i brane. Biti sam, zaista bez ikakve iluzije, to dolazi neposredno pred ludilo ili samoubistvo.

Ce n'est qu'en se retrouvant toujours seul qu'on connaît le bonheur d'être ensemble.

Cik labi, ja cilv?kam ir cigaretes. Sm??is dažk?rt ir pat lab?ks nek? draugi. Cigaretes nemulsina. T?s ir m?mas un labas.

Bir çocuÄŸum ve bir istasyonda tek ba??may?m.

I find it all infinitely sad, but at the same time so entrancing, that I often feel as if it would be the part of wisdom to fly at once to the woods or mountains where one can always find peace. - Dora Root in a letter to Daniel Burnham

Late that afternoon, he devoted two quiet hours to his Old South, losing himself in another, more chivalrous age.

So many men Ã¢â'¬Â¦ think absolute isolation a coming paradise.

There is no place suitable to my kind of mentality

He was a loner and intellectually intolerant.

It wasn't satisfying to be the one to leave. But it was a lot better than being the one who was left.

A man does his best work when those around him are asleep.

William James said long ago, solitude is the greatest terror of childhood.

Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.

If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care.

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.

You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He grows in public stature as he sheds his loneliness and often his work deteriorates. For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

I felt very lonely when they were all there.

He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure.

But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-by to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.