Quotes About Solitude

Snow falling in the woods when there's no wind is the most peaceful thing I've ever seen.

Er setzte sich auf ein fadenscheiniges Sofa.

Ya nunca volvería a moverse con gracia y elegancia al compás de una música que solo él oía.

Ya me llamarán. Si encuentran algo más, quiero decir. O quizá para tenerme al corriente, por favor. —Por supuesto. ¿Está aquí con algún amigo o amiga? ¿Algún familiar? ¿Alguien que la ayude y le haga compañía? —No —contestó Sloane—. Nadie.

los mejores chistes son lo que solo pueden escucharse a solas.

La ausencia de sonido puede ser peor que cualquier grito

se dijo, los mejores chistes son lo que solo pueden escucharse a solas.

Deep in the shady sadness of a valeFar sunken from the healthy breath of morn,Far from the fiery noon, and eve's one star,Sat gray-hair'd Saturn, quiet as a stone.

Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art—Not in lone splendor hung aloft the nightAnd watching, with eternal lids apart,Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,The moving waters at their priestlike taskOf pure ablution round earth's human shores.

Forlorn! the very word is like a bellTo toll me back from thee to my sole self!

Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel --or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.

My imagination is a monastery, and I am its monk

I mingle with my peers or no one, and since I have no peers, I mingle with no one.

My life is a rather grim one. One day I shall perhaps describe it to you in great detail.

siso n. a solitary experience you wish you could have shared with someone else-having dinner in a romantic setting, reaching the summit after an arduous climb, having a run-in with a crazy stranger that nobody's going to believe-which makes you look around for confirmation that it even happened at all.

ledsome adj. feeling lonely in a crowd; drifting along in a sea of anonymous faces but unable to communicate with or confide in any of them.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

Books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves. Inside this solitude, we take on contours, textures, perspectives. Heightened language levitates the reader. Great art transfigures. And when we go back to it, it's full of even more surprises. We get older; it gets smarter.

The whole value of solitude depends upon one's self; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it

throughout my life I've steered an uneasy course between the Scylla of solitude and the Charybdis of politics, between my desire to help change the world and my impulse to escape it. The vessel in which I navigate these turbulent waters is music.

If he couldn't be alone, then he couldn't think of anyone he'd rather have irritating him.

Silence, always my fortress, sometimes my prison

Silence, sometimes my fortress, always my prison.

I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.