Quotes About Solitude

I give myself up to darkness; and wish I may never again be required to lift my head to the light.

No-one speaks. No-one moves (…). We glide, softly, in silence, into our dark and separate hells

For she was the only one, of all of them, to have spared me a pleasant word; and suddenly I longed for time to pass, not for its own sake, but as it would take me back to her.

For a time, all was still: for the yards there, like the grounds, are desperately bleak, all dirt and gravel—there is not so much as a blade of grass to be shivered by the breezes, or a worm or a beetle for a bird to swoop for.

She looked again at Julia's handsome, fragile figure and thought, What is it about Julia? Why is she always so alone?

neuralgia, so she had come along on her own. It was worth it, though. She

We glide, softly, in silence, into our dark and separate hells.

When she heard the splash and gurgle of tea being poured from the pot, followed by the rattle of china as he carried the cups to his bedroom, she longed so dismally for a cup of tea of her own that she nearly wept.

It can be a good thing, too, to learn to sit in your own weirdness.

It's a gorgeous oddity of our existence – our loneliness is not caused by being on our own. Indeed, loneliness is best cured with aloneness, which is to say, a meaningful connection to ourselves.

Push back the demands pressing in on you; create a safe space around you, a haven in which you can rest with Me.

RELAX IN MY HEALING, holy Presence. Allow Me to transform you through this time alone with Me. As your thoughts center more and more on Me, trust displaces fear and worry.

En la quietud (pasando tiempo a solas conmigo) y confianza en mí (reposando en mi suficiencia) está tu fuerza.

Because, when everything else is gone, all we're left with is our imaginations.

occasionally I can be quite evil, when there's no-one around to realise.

It was nice to be around people I knew cared for me, but at the same time, the more time I spent with all of them, the more alone I felt

Restricted happiness is better than the freedom of solitude." -Yuichi to Wataru

Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.

With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything...

I love solitude but I prize it most when company is available.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

The clue's always, always, buried deep in the boredom... Where do you feel most bored? Go there.

If you discovered that you were the only person in the world, and everything you see around you was in fact a part of you, dramatised, how would that change what you are doing right now, right this very instant? What would you stop doing? What would you start doing? What would suddenly not matter at all?