Quotes About Solitude

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.

There's nothing quite like a quiet corner in a coffee shop to gather your thoughts and begin writing.

Having quiet time mentally is key in harnessing our intuition, and being awake when others are asleep allows for us to be with our thoughts.

When I'm writing, I separate from everyone. Even my band. I push myself, and I'm alone with my thoughts. Separating from friends and comforts and family lets you think a lot deeper about subject matter. Working alone drives me a little crazy, but it makes the writing as honest as possible.

I keep my thoughts to myself, and I think that's one of the best ways to be.

I don't like being left to my own thoughts.

I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.

I feel like working out is something where I can be alone with my own thoughts and release all that tension.

Running is something you can do and be alone in your thoughts, and I like that. Maybe I've been a runner my whole life.

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.

There is no other who experiences your thoughts or your feelings.

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

I don't feel the breath of a thousand people over my shoulder.

She had never lived alone before, and at first found it strange, but gradually had learned to accept it as a blessing and to indulge herself in all sorts of reprehensible ways, like getting up when she felt like it, scratching herself if she itched, sitting up until two in the morning to listen to a concert.

almost forgotten him. In her hours

Try listening to yourself sometime, alone in a transient room in a strange town. The worst is when you draw a blank, and the ash-blonde ghosts of the past carry on long twittering long-distance calls with your inner ear, and there's no way to hang up.

The walls of books around me, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. I hated to get up.

I turned on my back and floated": The Drowning Pool

I think she must have lived where all the sad poets live, in that secret place where everything hurts all the time.

Since man must, to play god, hate other men, it means that this pleasure must be a solitary one and must be exacted at the price of someone's suffering.

I love walking in the rain because no one can see me crying

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.