Quotes About Solitude

Only the mind cannot be sent into exile.

Loneliness is the teacher of giving.

I would go out into the desert. The desert was my teacher. I didn't know about gurus and wise people-I wasn't a reader.

I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher.

loneliness is a great teacher and a master test of character

Se dijo que todo lo que a él le parecía importante no lo era realmente y que en todo lo que realmente era importante no tenía tiempo de pensar. La vida pasaba sin reflexionar apenas sobre las cosas sencillas y grandes, la soledad, la nostalgia, el deseo y la muerte.

Forse perché la derisione è una forma di difesa per chi la usa, contro il pericolo della solitudine? Perché si deride in compagnia, mentre chi suscita il riso resta immancabilmente da solo?

You might even say I loved my punishment of solitary confinement. Whoever doesn't need other human beings, Father quoted Aristotle, must be a god or an animal. For hours on end, I enjoyed being both. I didn't mind.

Here is what you do. You ease yourself into a tub of water, you ease yourself down. You lie back and wait for the ripples to smooth away. Then you take a deep breath, and slide your head under, and listen for the playfulness of your heart.

When I read a magazine, I feel connected to the world, in on everything. When I read a book, I feel removed from the world, isolated, as if I've slipped off into a soundproof booth. It is the same with listening to the radio (connected) versus listening to a CD (removed). Both fill a certain need, balance the other out. There's the getting away, and then there's the coming back.

I now lived in an invisible place made of my own dwindling breath, and because no one else could see it, they could not yank me out of it.

Las personas libres jamás podrán concebir lo que los libros significan para quienes vivimos encerrados.

I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I am not distressed by my own silences. You have a vehement silence, one feels it is charged with essences, it is a strangely alive silence, like a trap open over a well, from which one can hear the secret murmur of the earth itself.

I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes my life bearable, because my happiness with human beings is so precarious, my confiding moods rare, and the least sign of non-interest is enough to silence me. In the journal I am at ease.

Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.

The love of only one man or one woman is an enclosure.

Now, his hair is white and he no longer understands anyone's need to love, for he has lost everything, not to love, but to his games of love; and when you love as a game, you lose everything, as he lost his home and wife, and now he clings to me, afraid of loss, afraid of solitude.

Will I really be able to accept my mental loneliness?

For the first time, in Golconda, she had practiced Larry's choice of withdrawing if the people were not of quality. Of preferring solitude to the effort of pretending he was interested in them.

To escape him she had run away to the end of the world. To be free of him she had run away to places where he never went.

I am very near to madness. I imagine my isolation, and I go mad inside, a delirium of doubts and fears.

t is surprising how well one writes if one thinks no one will read. –

Why does one's best writing require secrecy, silence, and darkness?

It is surprising how well one writes if one thinks no one will read.