Quotes About Solitude

As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.

Once again I come upon his famous definition of love: two solitudes that protect and border and greet each other.

Someone has said, When you are born into this world there are at least two of you, but going out you are on your own. Death happens to every one of us, yet it remains the most solitary of human experiences, one that separates rather than unites us.

writing poetry is like prayer, and prayer isn't something you have to share with other people.

Wilderness to the people pf America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium.

Sometimes just being still is the best thing you can do for yourself.

Talking to yourself is the last subterfuge.

I have my books and poetry to protect me

The wildness that comes in the waiting. In the sitting.

All of them with their own lives, untouched by mine. Or each other's.

I spend long, long time in shoe box.

He thinks I suffer from depression. But I'm just quiet. Solitude and depression are like swimming and drowning. In school many years ago, I learned that flowers sometimes unfold inside themselves.

Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here.

For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

Sometimes I wake up and lie still enough to hear a petal drop from the vase of flowers. Sometimes I lie awake and wish there was someone to hear my falling.

Should you ever feel too lonely...listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all those who are to come.

Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.

Winter is for dreaming

For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched. The

Reading reassures us that no matter how alone we might feel, there are many others - spread as wide as history itself - who have felt the same way we have, who have occupied the rooms we find ourselves locked in at various points of our lives.

adrift in private thoughts, anchored to the world by unfamiliar shadows.

Loneliness is like being the only person left alive in the universe, except that everyone else is still here. — Simon Van Booy, Everything Beautiful Began After . (Harper Perennial; Original edition July 5, 2011)

The memories keep him company. He doesn't believe in finding anyone new. He's happy with what he had. Desire is met with the memory of satisfaction.

there was just herself to count on. That was a sad indictment of her life.