Quotes About Solitude

Give me again my hollow tree A crust of bread, and liberty!

I remembered what Thoreau had written in his journal about thinking nothing of walking eight miles to greet a tree.

This solitary Tree! a living thing Produced too slowly ever to decay; Of form and aspect too magnificent To be destroyed.

On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!

Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.

I've got to be by trees, otherwise I get claustrophobic.

If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is there to hear it, doesn't it just lie there and rot?

Sleep not under a willow tree for she weeps many tears.

A single tree in the middle of nowhere means resistance and victory!

A lot of people prefer to be alone. They would rather be a palm tree on an island. I don't get it.

I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.

there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late

I ask myself, who do i trust? Then i answered, No-one

Stand up for what is right even if you stand alone.

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.

Twas better to be alone than to be left alone.

Loneliness is good practice for eternity.

La mejor manera de emplear tu tiempo es separarte de todo, y en la soledad de tu habitación, observar el caleidoscopio de este mundo desconocido.

Perhaps unrequited love was like a specter in the house, a presence that brushed at the edge of senses, a heat in the dark, a shadow under the sun.

He admired her surety. She knew her own worth and did not pretend otherwise for those who judged her on her parentage. But by refusing to tolerate fools and play nice, she'd condemned herself to a solitary path, both in defeat and in victory.

There was never a man present in all her dreams of freedom; there had always been only her, in glorious , splendid solitude, replete in and of herself.

P.S. I fear that in person I shall prove to be a sore disappointment. With pen and paper I am at ease; in the solitude of my own company my thoughts and ideas flow without obstruction. But before others it takes me the greatest effort to string two words together, and more often than not my words emerge awkward and off-putting.