Quotes About Solitude

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

We're fine together, just like this: Our silence protects us from ourselves

Better to be quirky alone than unhappy together.

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.

Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together.

The birds have vanished into the sky, and now the last cloud drains away. We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.

People can have lovers..they can have friends..they can be together..but when you think about it..you'll see that originally..we're alone

All still lifes are actually paintings of the world on the sixth day of creation, when God and the world were alone together, without man!

We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together.... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.

Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.

Take me someplace where we can be silent together.

So now, all alone or not, you gotta walk ahead. Thing to remember is if we're all alone, then we're all together in that too.

Farewell until eternity, where you and I shall not find ourselves together.

The branches of most of the trees were bare now. He had never minded bare trees. He could see the sky through them. He had often lain along a stout branch, gazing upward, dreaming of worlds beyond the one he inhabited.

All she could think of was crawling into bed and being left alone with her misery.

But she felt an unexpected stab of loneliness. Teddy was not there. If she were to reach out to where he had always lain beside her, he would not be there. He would never be there again. Not ever or ever or ever.

She fled up the stairs to her room. But her room did not provide sanctuary enough. She needed to be quite alone. She needed to be somewhere where she could recollect herself and find some peace.

I always seem to be so cozy with my own company that I rarely think of going out.

This was all she would ever have of him, and she was going to enjoy these few days for all they were worth. She would enjoy them in the strict privacy of her heart, without either Piers or anyone else being at all aware of her reason for doing so.

He chattered on with the larger group, reclining indolently on one elbow on the blanket, sucking on the end of a blade of grass, and resisting with all the power of his will the urge to jump to his feet and stride off through the trees alone. He felt rather as if he were suffocating.

She leads a rather lonely life.

Life had been so very quiet since. And so very dull, a deep inner voice added.

Life on a large estate for a single gentleman can become very lonely.