Quotes About Solitude

In the daytime, when the sun is young, My heart aches for thee. I take a flute and blow it. I go out wandering. Taking a long sword, I go away into the night; I go away under the dark sky. I fear nothing...

I don't even like most people.

the dreamy endlessness of the afternoons spent deep in her own mind.

The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.

To wander solitary there: Two paradises 'twere in one To live in paradise alone.

Fair Quiet, have I found thee here, And Innocence, thy sister dear! Mistaken long, I sought you then In busy companies of men; Your sacred plants, if here below, Only among the plants will grow. Society is all but rude, To this delicious solitude.

meal together, their internal lives far more interesting than the ones they share with each other.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death. —Alfred Russel Wallace Faking my own death is

I need to spend time with God even when I do not know what to pray.

Take a holiday?' 'Find a reason to spend time on your own; only you won't be on your own. There must be one place you'd like to go. It doesn't have to be far away. There's a lot of static around you here. You need a chance to pause, take some deep breaths, so you can think better about the things you're doing and the things you want.' 'Maybe,

Though it's with you at every moment, it's always something of a surprise to discover that you can be at once alive and alone.

Always alone and in the midst of men, I come back to my rooms to dream with myself, and to surrender myself to all the vivacity of my melancholy,' he wrote.

I lived like a bear, in a little room, with books for my only friends . . . These were the joys and debaucheries of my youth.

She gave me more than just a sweater vest that night. She gave me all this. Nothing. She gave me nothing. That's what I need. No phone book, no Game Boy, no pasta maker, TV Guide. Nowhere to go, nothing to do.

Because, in an empty bedroom with creaky old wood floors, it is a natural human response to just stand there and shift your weight from foot to foot, and think about sex.

Be he the first to stand or the last, a man must stand," the father had told his adoring son. "And if there is only one man, then that man must stand alone." ~Thomas to Bruce Wayne

From the very second that two people sat together around a fire in the forest, there was another human out there who felt better in the dark.

Misha plip-plopping behind him.

On tylko tak gÅ'upio wyglÄ…da - potwierdziÅ' Jaskier. - Ale caÅ'y czas liczÄ™ na to, ?e wreszcie zechce mu siÄ™ wyt??y? mózgownicÄ™. Mo?e wyciÄ…gnie sÅ'uszne wnioski? Mo?e zrozumie, ?e jedynÄ… czynnoÅ›ciÄ…, która dobrze wychodzi samotnym, jest samogwaÅ't?

But after a year spent with company, I relaized how hard it was to live without anyone to talk to.

Nie polujÄ… wilcy samotnie! <...> JedynÄ… czynnoÅ›ciÄ…, która dobrze wychodzi samotnym, jest samogwaÅ't.

So many little animals, oh my. There can't be so many anywhere else.' 'There can't,' he muttered. 'Nowhere else. This is Brokilon.' 'What?' 'Brokilon. The Last Place.' 'I don't understand.' 'No one understands. No one wants to understand.

A w czasach pogardy ten, kto jest sam, musi zgin??.

One haiku hints at both the joys and sadness of a solitary monk on a pilgrimage in the winter: Even in my empty begging bowl A piece of hail.