Quotes About Solitude

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Silence is so freaking loud

There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

In truth, she disliked books. She felt a peculiar disquiet when opening the pages. She had felt it since childhood. She did not know why. Something in the act itself, the immersion, the seclusion, was disturbing. Reading was an affirmation of being alone, of being separate, trapped. Books were like oubliettes. Her preference was for company, the tactile world, atoms.

I wish I could be built so that stupidity and dullness wouldn't bother me as much, but I just can't help it. It may sound paradoxical, but with time one wishes to be a hermit instead of always being around people. - Doctor Doris Maza

It is December, and nobody asked if I was ready.

More than anything he wanted to read, because only in a book could he escape from his own dark thoughts.

It's a self-obliteration that never stops and that no one notices.

Others were in love. Desire abandoned them all.

Just leave me alone, I want to be alone," she said when Jack tried to open the car door. She hit the lock, and wound the window up. Since the roof was down, it was a fairly pointless exercise.

The night is my companion, and solitude my guide

Perfect silence is a safe resort, when such control cannot be attained.

I have followed Hamlet for so long, so blindly. Now that he is gone, I do not remember how to walk on my own.

Comprendía lo que era la necesidad de estar rodeada de gente. A ella le pasaba lo mismo. No era que no pudiera estar sola, porque sí podía. Pero si le daban a elegir, siempre prefería estar con otras personas.

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

To work in silence and with all one's heart, that is the writer's lot; he is the only artist who must be solitary and yet needs the widest outlook on the world.

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.

In the life of each of us there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

When a person has to put down and pick up their own plate, cook alone and eat alone and wash up alone, then stare at an empty chair, well, there is no breath. Earl

I like my life alone.

For the past two years, I had coasted along these waters and each year ended the same. With me returning alone.

Elizabeth Brown prefered a book to going on a date. While friends went out and danced 'till dawn, she stayed up, reading late.