Quotes About Solitude

Come out from among them, and be separate.

The wilderness and the idea of wilderness is one of the permanent homes of the human spirit.

In the legends of the saints and the prophets, either a desert or a mountain is pretty sure to figure. It is usually in the middle of one or on the top of the other that the vision comes or the test is met. To give their message to the world they come down or come out, but it is almost invariably in a solitude, either high or dry, that it is first revealed.

Of course I alienate myself from society. It's the only way I know of not being constantly reminded of all the ways I'm alienated from society.

That solitude promotes insight as well as change," Storr continues, "has been recognized by the great religious leaders"—including the Buddha, Jesus, and Mohammed—"who have usually retreated from the world before returning to it to share what has been revealed to them.

I thought my dance alone through worlds of odd and eccentric planets that no one else knew would sustain me.

Some things on this earth are unspeakable: Genealogy of the broken— A shy wind threading leaves after a massacre, Or the smell of coffee and no one there—

She had said that she preferred to be alone for so many years that it was now one of those things that equally well might or might not be true.

None of the rest of my life figures here.

Alone,alone! It is a fact, you hear more acutely and you see and think most acutely,when you are alone. Alone, alone! But there is happiness in alone, if you believe you have chosen it.

In marriage, the most intense conversations are often with oneself.

For writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy, freedom.

Silence rolled at me, in waves. They are all dead, and you are free. And you are blameless.

I am infatuated with the private life, and with anonymity; perhaps even invisibility.

How alone this was going to be.

I lock my door upon myself - a poet had said. I turn my key and there's -- happiness.

There's a sort of melancholy romance to the experience of being lonesome. I think of reading as a kind of romantic alone activity that you're doing. The image would include being curled up somewhere on a rainy day and you're reading very intensely involved in a world that no one can see because it's inside your head.

Much of the time he lay part-dressed on his bed, sipping gin, and thinking, and thinking, - though what it was, of which he thought, he seemed not to know.

First thing is when your on Death Row long enough you don't ask WHO AM I because you have learnt nobody would be there anyway.

Sunny wintry days. The idyll of (inner) loneliness. What am I going to do with my life?

Alone, alone! Long she would recall the strangeness of the word, an echo aerated by melancholy vowels—alone. AT

He said oh honey. how long have you known? Meaning, how long have you been alone, knowing?

She didn't return to school until the first Monday in March. By that time she'd thought, thought long and hard, much of the time in solitude in her room, and healed herself. Of course, she kept up with her school assignments; she was diligent, even obsessive about that.

The Holy Spirit showed me that when I put up walls to keep others out I also wall myself into solitary place of confinement.