Quotes About Solitude

And then you'll catch yourself thinking about something or someone who has no connection with the past. Someone who's only yours. And you'll realize… that this is where your life is.

Most people assume I write at night because of the kind of books I write, but I can shut out the light with my mind.

I sink into it completely, letting everything else fall away so all that's left is this. A moment like a poem.

Probably, sooner or later every person founds oneself to be needless.

Experience has tutored me well that most will lie or cheat to get the better hand. It's why I prefer solitude to social interaction. - Bethany

Exist outside but live and rest within...

It was either the chaos of a crowd of thoughts or the silence of solitude... nothing in between..

How alone everyone is in the vast tomb of the universe!

But they were not friends. They were here to keep each other from spinning off alone into the dark matter of the universe.

Life is sad. Here is someone.

All these people moving through life, all around me, and no one, not a single person, knows what I'm going through.

Some journeys can only be traveled alone.

Guard well your thoughts when alone and your words when accompanied.

The best life is the one which is lived happily without being noticed by others!

so I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person's solitude.

Barring love I'll take my life in large doses alone--rivers, forests, fish, grouse, mountains. Dogs.

We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

Acquire the habit of speaking to God as if you were alone with Him, familiarly and with confidence and love, as to the dearest and most loving of friends.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own.

I'm an introvert... I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.

One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.