Quotes About Solitude

I wish I could've done more for her, but some sorrows were simply too individual to share.

Old age is not meant to be survived alone," Man Rapadou said, her voice trailing with her own hidden thoughts. "Death should come gently, slowly, like a man's hand approaching your body. There can be joy in impatience if there is time to find the joy.

And there was no Camelot now -- now that no Queen was there, all white and gold, under an oaktree with another sunlight sifting itself in silence on her glory through the dark leaves above her where she sat, smiling at what she feared, and fearing least what most there was to fear.

Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow.

Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you, everything hides, even your thoughts escape you, when you walk in a crowd.

Here in this wild and beautiful spot amid the mountains, the dark woods, the rising mist, the new moon hanging above the silhouettes of the peaks, we waited, in spite of the night chill, until the last sunlight of the spring had ebbed from the sky.

I sat alone in that stupid forest asking God to tell me what to do.

Being alone is more painful than getting hurt.

Those who love seek a philosophy and, because of this, are fond of solitude.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

Listen, I have been educated. I have learned about Western Civilization. Do you know What the message of Western Civilization is? I am alone.

Frequently, walking down the streets in Paris alone, I've suddenly come upon myself in a store window grinning foolishly away at the thought that no one in the world knew where I was at just that moment.

I think it is the first proof of a stable mind to be able to pause and spend time with oneself.

Notice that no other person is in her first memory.

Most people's feet may be tired at the end of a day in a mall or a museum, but they're ready for more when you suggest an evening party. HSPs need solitude after such a day. They feel jangled, overaroused.

I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.

Ever notice that Soup for One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

But, poor little kid, it's too bad you should find it out - so soon." "Find out what?" "That the lonesomest place in all the world is in a crowd in a big city.

The one happiness is to shut one's door upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create to create life in that isolation from life.

Reading and writing are closed-room activities, which literally take you away from the gaze of others. The greater risk is that they also remove others from your gaze.

No one depended anymore on my care and, finally, even I was no longer a burden to myself.

The solitude of women's minds is regrettable, I said to myself, it's a waste to be separated from each other without procedures, without tradition.

In my spare time I didn't go out, I sat and read novels I got from the library: Grazia Deledda, Pirandello, Chekhov, Gogol, Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky.