Quotes About Solitude

It just doesn't get any more stripped down than going out totally alone and doing songs.

My EP, 'Room 93,' was all about isolation - it was based on the idea of being in a hotel room and being totally alone with yourself or that other person.

xxx each of us carries his or her own solitude. We are invisible and we cannot be touched.

Tears have a better character cried alone. Pity can sometimes be more wolf than dog.

To be alone, but to be pierced through with a kingly joy, now and then, as I believe I am, is a great possession indeed.

I am cold, even though the heat of early summer is adequate. I am cold because I cannot find my heart.

I had no desire to be seen by anyone, or talk to anyone. Sometimes out walking I would be in such a peculiar state of mind that I would rush home at the merest hint of another person.

The burden of getting older was borne alone

He was looking into that strange place, the middle distance, the most mysterious, human, and rich of all distances.

What he must have suffered, in his lovely English privacy.

I am clearly content to be beyond help.

Because a lone person takes great comfort from her people, in the watches of the night, even the memory of them.

Then his face opened again like that spot in the woods touched suddenly by stray sunlight.

In this makeshift place Willie Dunne discovered a peace of sorts. Yes the wild guns struck their great notes in the distance like the bells of a horrific city. Hearts asleep in the shires of England close upon the sea must heard them too. But he fell down between the boards of memory and sleep like a penny in an old floor. But he fell down between the boards of memory and sleep like a penny in an old floor. He lay there in the dust of nowhere, sunken and alone.

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.

Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.

Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.

From an early age she had developed the art of being alone and generally preferred her own company to anyone else's. She read books at enormous speed and judged them entirely on her ability to remove her from her material surroundings. In almost all the unhappiest days of her life she had been able to escape from her own inner world by living temporarily in someone else's, and on the two or three occasions that she had been too upset to concentrate she had been desolate.

Mitten im Nirgendwo.

How ever did I pass the time before I knew you? I think of that past time as now I pass each passing day in lonely sorrow, lacking you.

Lighting some fine incense and then lying down alone to sleep. Looking into a Chinese mirror that's a little clouded.

To wash one's hair, make one's toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an inner pleasure.

På bron fanns inte en människa, som kunde höra dem. Det var deras hemlands blåa kullar, älvens gråa vatten och de bugande träden som de sjöng till. De skulle aldrig se dem mer, och ur strupar, som tillsnördes av gråt, trängde avskedssången.

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.