Quotes About Solitude

Quando a gente se aborrece dos homens toma sempre a afeição dos animais, que têm a vantagem de não discorrer, nem intrigar. (Linha reta e linha curva)

You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.

The writing of a book may be a solitary business, it is done alone. The writer sits down with paper and pen, or typewriter, and, withdrawn from the world, tries to set down the story that is crying to be written. We write alone, but we do not write in isolation. No matter how fantastic a story line may be, it still comes out of our response to what is happening to us and to the world in which we live.

But human beings need Deepening Places, too. And far too many never have any.

so often I need OUT; something will throw me into total disproportion, and I have to get away from everybody—away from all these people I love most in the world—in order to regain a sense of proportion.

A tree falls in the forest, thought Roxanne, staring bleakly out of the window. A man tells a woman he loves her. But if no-one is present to hear it does he really make a sound? Did it really happen?

single night

It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.

I feel I can give you everything without giving myself away, I whispered in your basement bed. If one does one's solitude right, this is the prize.

Loneliness is solitude with a problem.

If I have sinned so much, if I have been since then so solitary, if my soul has taken such a swirling and solitary movement, if I have doubted everyting, if I have been fatalist and have been a pessimistic child who awaits death every day and who almost seeks it out, if I have opened myself slowly and late to happiness, and if I am still a somber man incapable of laughing wholeheartedly it is because you left me . . .

the whip-poor-will, like love and wisdom, had no home

I sit and feel lonely. Sitting and feeling lonely is something I am a spectacular success at. I can do it for hours. Everyone is good at something.

It sometimes takes a state of solitude to bring to mind the real power of companionship.

Legends are born in solitude. Idiots are born in packs.

The lonely road to greatness is better than the crowded road to mediocrity.

It is never crowded at the mountaintop.

It has taken me a lot of years, but I find silence is sometimes the best answer.

The only way to succeed in life is to never give up. Oftentimes, it requires standing alone.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Your world is just as empty as your heart!

I recognized exactly where she was—that state where you're able to hold it together as long as absolutely no one talks to you or touches you with any amount of sympathy.

Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

I mean to retire, where nobody will have heard about my special skills. And conversation is mainly about the weather.