Quotes About Solitude

A great love is an absolute isolation and an absolute absorption.

Love is essential, gregariousness is optional.

Perhaps it's better if I live in your heart, where the world can't see me. If I'm dead, there will be no stain on our love.

It reminds me that no embrace will ever feel the same again, because no one will ever be like her again, because she's gone. She's gone, and crying feels so useless, so stupid, but it's all I can do.

I came to love silence, because it's so rare, and it's now my favorite aural condition.

I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it.

I would love to go and live in the mountains... and make jam.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.

What I love the most is getting on the ice and just popping in a fabulous CD and skating - all by myself, the rink completely empty, just me and the music.

Going nowhere isn't about turning your back on the world; it's about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.

I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people, in some essential way, I am something of a loner.

Productive work, love and thought are possible only if a person can be, when necessary, quiet and alone. To be able to listen to oneself is the necessary condition for relating oneself to others.

I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone.

Love is a thing you never can share.

What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world?

Don't like small talk, love rainy days.

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

Ain'tno sunshine when she's gone. It's not warm when she's away. Ain'tno sunshine when she's gone, and she's always gone too long, anytime she goes away.

Until I truly loved, I was alone.

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

I love my solitude, and I would love it still more if I had more of it.

I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when I was single, either.

Unfortunatley, Lady of the Haven, my one true love remains my self.