Quotes About Solitude

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.

The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.

Nor has he lived in vain, who from his cradle to his grave has passed his life in seclusion.

If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

In L.A., you really are in your car all day alone, and there's very little public life.

There is no wilderness like a life without friends.

Indeed, the great paradox of the writer's life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people.

I have never, in all my life, been so odious as to regard myself as 'superior' to any living being, human or animal. I just walked alone - as I have always walked alone.

It is a rare life that remains orderly even in private.

Nothing to me is so erotic as a hotel room, and therefore so penetrated with life and death.

We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak of the two in the same breath.

You spend the first two-thirds of your life asking to be left alone and the last third not having to ask.

I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.

My life is a very interior and solitary life. I tend not to care that much about external things.

My life is more important. At this point in my life I'm alone. I don't think about it a lot.

What people do in their private lives is their business, and shouldn't be anybody else's business.

If you're not getting any motivation from anyone around you in life and you feel alone, rely on yourself and your own ability.

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.

I'm actually quite self-sufficient, so it might look as if there isn't room for anyone in my life. That isn't entirely the case.

I've spent my life alone in a room with a typewriter.

I walked in the meadows of green grieving for my life.

Solitude is not a way of running away from life ... from our feelings. On the contrary. This is the time we sort them out, air them, get over them, and go on without the burden of yesterday.

Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!