Quotes About Solitude

good things happen to the human spirit when it is left alone.

The American playwright and painter Lorraine Hansberry said, "The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

What art offers is space — a certain breathing room for the spirit.

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone

Once you have passed the solitude test," continued Solkin, "you have absolute confidence in yourself, and there is nothing that can break you afterward.

Not wanting anyone to pop my bubble by speaking to me, I immediately began reading Lesbian Nuns, and that did the trick. No one attempted small talk.

A perfect day is: Nobody calls with a problem they can handle themselves.

I have come to believe that in the life of every man, late or soon, there is a moment when he knows beyond whatever else he might understand, and whether he can articulate the knowledge or not, the terrifying fact that he is alone, and separate, and that he can be no other than the poor thing that is himself.

and as he walked slowly through the evening, breathing the fragrance and tasting upon his tongue the sharp night-time air, it seemed to him that the moment he walked in was enough and that he might not need a great deal more.

She was an only child, and loneliness was one of the earliest conditions of her life.

So I must be locked up, where I can be safely irresponsible, where I can do no harm.

She seemed happiest when she was alone; she would sit for hours working needlepoint or embroidering tablecloths and napkins, with a tiny indrawn smile on her lips.

And it might be amusing to pass through the world once more before I return to the cloistered and slow extinction that awaits us all.

He felt that wherever he lived, and wherever he would live hereafter, he was leaving the city more and more, withdrawing into the wilderness.

There's nothing worse than being alone when you aren't strong enough to face your own thoughts. You can stand it just so long, and then––Well, then you just can't be alone any longer. You've got to do something, no matter how silly it is. You've got to make yourself believe you aren't alone, even if you are.

Even now, after all these years, I can taste the bitter sweetness of that body, and feel beneath me the firm warmth. It is odd that I can do so, for I know that the flesh of Julius Antonius now is smoke, and is dispersed into the air. That body is no more, and my body remains upon this earth. It is odd to know that. No other man has touched me since that afternoon. No man shall touch me for as long as I shall live.

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

I knew in my very heart that I would not be able to sustain myself for long alone.

Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it.

And it seemed that my ping-pong ball could not touch his right now. We are alone in these things that we suffer.

He forgot that anybody was there, and, sobbing, hid his face in his great hands.

Abrió el libro, pero ninguna página parecía ser lo bastante potente para borrar la soledad que sentía.

It is true she liked him most when he wasn't there, but then she usually liked everybody most when they weren't there.