Quotes About Solitude

I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours.

Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.

Her mind lives tidily, apart from cold and noise and pain. And bolts the door against her heart, out wailing in the rain.

My land is bare of chattering folk; the clouds are low along the ridges, and sweet's the air with curly smoke from all my burning bridges.

I like it better in the dusk, like this. It's sweet. Dusk is so personal, somehow.

All true wisdom is only to be found far from the dwellings of men, in the great solitudes; and it can only be obtained through suffering. Suffering and privation are the only things that can open the mind of man to that which is hidden from his fellows.' That

One is never alone with a rubber duck.

He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.

Imagine he said, never even thinking, 'We are alone,' simply because it has never occurred to you to think that there's any other way to be.

The light was only just visible - except of course that there was no one to see, no witnesses, not this time, but it was nevertheless a light.

Marvin the Paranoid Android sat slumped, ignoring all and ignored by all, in a private and rather unpleasant world of his own.

Albacete (AL-ba-seet) n. A single surprisingly long hair growing in the middle of nowhere.

Trouble with a long journey like this,' continued the Captain, 'is that you end up just talking to yourself a lot, which gets terribly boring because half the time you know what you're going to say next.

That is the first thing anybody has said to me for seventeen years, three months and two days, five hours, nineteen minutes and twenty seconds. I've been counting." He

THIS TIME THERE would be no witnesses.

He decided to feel sorry for himself. That would pass the time.

That's a good name—ground! I wonder if it will be friends with me? And the rest, after a sudden wet thud, was silence.

Well, I wouldn't overstress that angle, you know,' he said finally, 'one's never alone with a rubber duck.

they were each grateful to retire to separate cabins and try to rationalize their thoughts.

Then why did you ask me?' it screamed. 'I just wanted something to talk to,' said Marvin.

Kendini afallam??, yapayaln?z ve sevgisiz hissediyordu.

For Arthur, who could usually contrive to feel self-conscious if left alone for long enough with a Swiss cheese plant, the moment was one of sustained revelation.

Oradan sekiz saat uzakta, bat?da, bir adam kumsalda oturmuÅŸ, anlat?lmaz kayb? için yas tutuyordu. Kayb?n?n yas?n? ancak küçük keder paketleri halinde tutabiliyordu, çünkü tamam?, ta??nmas? çok zor kocaman bir yük oluÅŸturuyordu.

Pensar en que 'estamos solos', sólo porque a ti nunca se te ha ocurrido que existe otro modo de estar.