Quotes About Solitude

But if a peacock dances in the jungle, there is nobody to see its tail.

Unashamed, accustomed to solitude, he began to enjoy his near-invisibility. From his position at the edge of the school around him, he took vicarious pleasure in the activities of those around him, silently celebrating the rise or fall of this or that playground emperor, or the examination failures of particularly unappetizing class-fellows: the delights of the spectator.

The landscape of his poetry was still the desert...

Sometimes he thinks the walls are throbbing, as if the water-stained concrete has developed a tic, and then he allows himself to close his eyelids which are as heavy as iron shields, so that he can tell himself who he is.

The life of this alien city was lived under the cathedral dome of the sky. People ate where the birds could share their food and gambled where any cutpurse could steal their winnings, they kissed in full view of strangers and even fucked in the shadows if they wanted to. What did it mean to be a man so completely among men, and women too? When solitude was banished, did one become more oneself, or less? Did the crowd enhance one's selfhood or erase it?

Her thoughts, loosen by solitude, often burst these days through her unconscious lips; and often contradict one another (...)

My diaries have always been my friends. The written word is so much more constant than human beings.

When you were your own quarry, when the material you were dredging up lay buried in the caverns of the self, a time came when there was only an emptiness left.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence:

Peaceful, honest people have the right to be left alone.

I have never really lived with anyone in my adult years. I just read my sports ticker. And 50 Shades of Grey.

I don't know who took what. That is pretty private with an individual.

It is better to be alone with God. His friendship will not fail me, nor His counsel, nor His love. In His strength, I will dare and dare and dare until I die.

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

I know I have great inner strength; I always have. I can blank things out, cut people out, and I know that I can go and live in a cave on my own if necessary.

Quiet is might. Solitude is strength. Introversion is power.

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

Silence is a great source of strength.

I'd walk and think about my entire life. I'd find my strength again, far from everything that had made my life ridiculous.

My doom and my strength is to be solitary.

I give myself strength by staying away from any music.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.