Quotes About Solitude

For those moments when it's just you and the rock and the ice and the snow, life always makes sense.

I'll take a quiet life, A handshake of carbon monoxide. No alarms and no surprises...

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

No one in your life is with you constantly. No one is completely on your side.

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

If I can get a day to myself, I won't answer the phone, I'll read or go for a walk. Simple, basic things. People think there's always time to do that but there isn't. Life is short.

Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty. It is living above the world while we are still in it.

Cultivating quietness is a missing discipline today...the quietness needed to nurture an inner life hid in Christ.

I can't think of anything I'd rather do less than have to continuously share details of my everyday life.

About once a week I think about going and living in a cave and meditating instead. I think that would be a more peaceful life, where my spiritual journey was not interrupted by egomania so regularly.

Mem'ry All alone in the moonlight I can smile at the old days Life was beautiful then.

A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.

I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?

You know at the end of the day, when you close the door and you're all alone... And you strip off your armor and lower your guard and peel away the mask... When there's nobody watching and nothing to hide... And you no longer need to be strong or clever or pretty or brave... There's just you. That's it. That's the soul.

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.

The crisp path through the field in this December snow, in the deep dark, where we trod the buried grass like ghosts on dry toast.

I am going into the darkness of the darkness for ever.

The two of us were alone on the planet, with all the vastness of the sky and the future and the past spreading out around us

Those moments where we have a terrible desire to be alone, because we are confident that, face to face with ourselves, we will be able to find and express strange, unique things, unheard; and then disappointment as great as our hopes, when one is alone at last and nothing comes out of that loneliness as expected.

I've been going for walks.  Shore of the sea, accompanied by the most somber thoughts. And if I throw myself from the top of a cliff?

As I said, either friends or the country, some . . . either some very dear person or some very dear place seems necessary to relieve life's daily grey, and to show that it is grey. If possible, one should have both.

Nature, with all her cruelty, comes nearer to us than do these crowds of men.