Quotes About Solitude

Running is just such a monestary-- a retreat, a place to commune with God and yourself, a place for psychological and spiritual renewal.

Thomas Merton, another solitary, understood that. The beginning of freedom, he wrote, is not liberation from the body but liberation from the mind. We are not entangled in our own body, we are entangled in our mind. I

The first half hour of my run is for my body. The last half hour, for my soul. In the beginning the road is a miracle of solitude and escape. In the end it is a miracle of discovery and joy. Throughout, it brings an understanding of what Blake meant when he said, "Energy is eternal delight." I

El amor más intenso, quizá más débil que el odio, es una negociación, nunca concluyente, entre soledades.

Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.

Its good to live alone than to live in a bad company

It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company.

It is better to be alone than in bad company

It is better to be alone than being in wrong company. Because the wrong company may give joy some time but it will time to time make you realise, you are not suitable in that group. They will involved in their activities and most time you feel alone . And being alone in group is more painful then being alone single. Wrong company means their activities are not suitable to you, and never do things you don't like. Wether being alone but never loose yourself

Starry sky my sister cursed men star your death the light of a great cold solitude of lightning absence of humanity at last I empty myself of memories a desert sun effaces my name star I see its silence ice it cries out like a wolf on my back I fall to the ground it kills me I guess.

Ne kimseyi görme, ne konuÅŸma, düÅŸünme, d??ar? ç?kma, yerinden k?m?ldama isteÄŸi duyuyorsun.

You are alone. You learn how to walk like a man alone. To stroll, to dawdle. To see without looking, to look without seeing. You learn the art of transparency, immobility, inexistence.You learn how to be a shadow and how to look at men as if they were stones.

Tu as tout à apprendre, tout ce qui ne s'apprendre pas : la solitude, l'indifférence, la patience, le silence.

The windows let in a perfect light, a vibrant light such as you get in the north, where a kind of grey gauze turns the sun to silver. And such solitude, such quiet.

He now understood deathbed dramas. Everybody thinks about death. But only one person thinks about it for himself. The others know that in the morning the sun will come through the blinds and their coffee will be served. From The Reckoning

He was silent. Well! Now she knew how right she had been. He was not in the least in love with her, and very happy she was to know it. All she wanted was a suitable retreat, such as a lumber-room, or a coal-cellar, in which to enjoy her happiness to the full.

I could never fancy any other female. Never shall! That's why you see me now, a lonely man, with no one to care for, and no one to care a straw for me!' As he presented the appearance of a comfortable hedonist, Kit was bereft of words.

If we are unable to tolerate ourselves when we are alone, how can we expect anyone else to be enriched by our company? Before we can have a solid relationship with another, we must have a relationship with ourselves. We are challenged to learn to listen to ourselves. We have to be able to stand alone before we can truly stand beside another.

Reading was my first solitary vice (and led to all others). I read while I ate, I read in the loo, I read in the bath. When I was supposed to be sleeping, I was reading.

It is very easy to love alone.

J'aime vivre au milieu de tant de gens et être si seule avec ma langue et moi-même.

I used to try to run five miles every other day, which I worked up to and I was doing it, but I was subjected to my own thoughts for forty minutes without any sensory input, and I couldn't stand what I thought.

I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions.

I'm not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.