Quotes About Solitude

I had discovered a new world called voluntary aloneness.

Forse è un destino assumere su di noi le altrui sofferenze, e che, in più, ciò accada proprio quando in solitudine si cerca di sottrarsene.»

Questa è infine la solitudine: avvolgersi nella seta dell'anima, farsi crisalide e attendere la metamorfosi, che non può mancare. Si vive intanto delle proprie esperienze e, telepaticamente, si vive la vita altrui.»

Han tände en cigarr och ställde sig att betrakta porträttet. Den som observerat hans ansikte nu, skulle icke kunna se hans tankar, ty han hade redan lärt sig så mycket om livets konst att han icke en gång anförtrodde ensamheten sina meningar, ja, han fruktade till och med att meddela sig med sig själv.

Even painfully shy and awkward people are not painfully shy or awkward when they are alone. The way to access this natural, comfortable alone-self when you are with others is by choosing to forbid yourself to wonder what they are thinking. Instead, force yourself to exist in the instant, then take it- and give it- as it comes.

But I think I would have been happier if the only thing that came out of his mouth was the sound of a turning page.

It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then?

My window fogs and this makes me feel like there is no world outside of the car.

The best person you can be is the person you are when you are alone on a random Thursday. That's who you are.

We did not pass one other Mercury Merkur XR4Ti the entire way.

I came to think that maybe God was what you believed in because you needed to feel you weren't alone.

I sometimes doubt whether even the friends whose kind thoughts turned downwards me that evening from the distant South and West could realize how cheerful is the recollection of the Christmas spent in the solitude and cold of the desert.

Toohey: Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us. Roark: But I don't think of you.

Every loneliness is a pinnacle

I dont work with collectives. I don't consult, i don't co-operate, I don't collaborate.

Because I never have any definite destination. This ship is not for going to places, but for getting away from them. When I stop at a port, it's only for the sheer pleasure of leaving it. I always think: here's one more place that can't hold me.

He never felt lonliness except when he was happy.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others. But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Our dearest one. Fear nothing of the forest. There is no danger in solitude. We have no need of our brothers. Let us forget their good and our evil, let us forget all things save that we are together and that there is joy as a bond between us. Give us your hand. Look ahead. It is our own world, Golden One, a strange, unknown world, but our own.

You don't know how hard I've tried to be left standing all by myself.

I am a man who does not exist for others.

I don't want to fight for the people, I don't want to fight against the people, I don't want to hear of the people. I want to be left alone—to live.

The crowd had stared at him and given up angrily, finding no satisfaction. He did not look crushed and he did not look defiant. He looked impersonal and calm. He was not like a public figure in a public place; he was like a man alone in his own room, listening to the radio.

So long as road lies before us, and what care we if we must travel it alone!