Quotes About Solitude

That in turn made him think of some poem or other, one about how you could spend years running, but in the end you always wound up facing yourself in a hotel room, with a naked bulb hanging overhead and a revolver on the table.

Oh, what the fuck,' she told the empty house. 'Bring on the night.

You cannot friend a hawk, they said, unless you are half a hawk yourself, alone and only a sojourner in the land, without friends or the need of them. The hawk pays no coinage to love or morals.

I want to go someplace where nobody knows me and I don't have any black marks against me before I start.

he travels fastest who travels alone.

Never had he seen a man who looked so lonely, so far from the run of human life with its fellowship and warmth. To see him here, in this place of fiesta, only underlined the truth of him: he was the last. There was no other.

And if there are no cars or planes, and if no one's Uncle John is out in the wood lot west of town banging away at a quail or pheasant; if the only sound is the slow beat of your own heart, you can hear another sound, and that is the sound of life winding down to its cyclic close, waiting for the first winter snow to perform last rites.

and time to think. He drove

Because the struggle continues, I retire frequently to the solitude of my own inner self to recommit to win my battles privately, to get my motives straight.

this library is another desert. A wasteland of words instead of sand.

He did not want to talk to anyone until he had had more time to think. But at the same time he did not want to be alone. The threat of madness was always at its worst when he was alone.

Sometimes people leave you Halfway through the wood Others may decieve you You decide what's good You decide alone But no one is alone

Great ideas come to us in the shower when it's the only time in the day when we're completely alone.

The self-prepared dinner is a great time killer for lonely people and as much time should be spent on it as possible.

There are few takers for the quiet heart.

Lacy was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized.

Lacey was just as happy alone as with company. When she was alone, she was potential; with others she was realized. Alone, she was self-contained, her tightly spinning magnetic energy oscillating around her. When in company, she had invisible tethers to anyone in the room: as they moved away, she pulled them in.

I would rather wake up in the middle of nowhere than in any city on earth.

I write in my log that it is a view of heaven from a seat in hell. My

When was the last time you sat for an hour of pure, unadulterated thinking?

Members of this school insist that the only way to find an opening to our underground world is to seek out a quiet and secluded spot. Close your eyes. Concentrate your attention inward. Descend.

furbling v. Having to wander through a maze of ropes at an airport or bank even when you're the only person in line.

I, who so love a hermit life for a good part of the day, find myself living in public, and almost losing my identity.

And all I loved, I loved alone.