Quotes About Solitude

I feel like a landscape, a ground without a figure.

I lived alongside him, in his hush and reserve

For the world slows and the stars falter, and all that remains is you...

For those of us who have felt this broken piece that has left us unable to mate as others seem to do, there is such comfort in solitude. There is comfort in the alone time, I guess. Or it just seems less dangerous.

I needed to grieve alone, not as a group and not as a spectacle.

It is easier to see who is real and truthful and who is pretending for nefarious reasons. While it can feel lonely to realize this piece of life, it is important to spend this alone time, to find a deeper place within oneself.

I'm single my life world

I feel so good after a workout. Any time you can be alone with yourself is really important.

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

This was how I learned Eternity all foes gone Just me here now And free to vary

It is only when you get older that everyone makes you feel bad about being alone, or implies that spending time with other people is somehow better, because it proves you to be likeable. But being unlikeable wasn't the reason she was alone. She was alone so she could hear herself thinking. She was alone so she could hear herself living.

Alone, one feels the whole universe, and none of one's personality.

She was alone so she could hear herself thinking. She was alone so she could hear herself living.

Perhaps I can carry my home on my back, if home is nothing but this cocoon, in which I can write and feel fine.

But being unlikeable wasn't the reason she was alone. She was alone so she could hear herself thinking. She was alone so she could hear herself living.

The lonely fill up their lives with books. I don't live in nature. I don't live in culture. I don't live in my relationships. I live in books. What good can all the books of the world be, penned by the loneliest men who ever lived?

It's Sunday now for all you lonely fuckers, but for me it's always Sunday afternoon.

The bath is one of the places I prefer, certainly not a place I leave readily, a place where one can close the door and remove oneself, put oneself in parentheses, as it were, from the rest of humanity. It is a place for reading and thinking, where one's mind wanders easily, where time seems temporarily suspended.

The only consolation I can find in your immediate presence, is your ultimate absence.

Sometimes when you are lonely, just being near a friend is enough. You don't need their words or anything they might be able to give. You just need t know that you're not alone.

I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

You can only sleep in one bed at a time.

Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

In fact, they didn't talk much at all, but they spent time together, each in his own abyss, held safe and tight by the other's silence.