Quotes About Solitude

And I am in retirement from love.

I'm a very independent person, I love being alone, writing and doing music and stuff.

I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit.

Love winter when the plant says nothing.

I love fishing, any kind of fishing.

Nate would tolerate most things for about an hour if he knew there was the promise of a snack and the chance to be left alone in the near future.

A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.

And I, methinks, am gone astray In trackless wastes and lone.

Marcella cared nothing for men's admiration, and yet, instead of retiring to one of those nunneries which are founded for her kind, she chose to rove the mountains, causing despair to all the shepherds.

Moreover, he was loth to be thus disturbed in his sombre reverie.

She was utterly alone to-night in the midst of a vast indifference.

They get the pleasure of being together. I get the pleasure of being alone. They

Go into the woods to lose sight and memory of the crimes of your contemporaries. —JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

Her supposition that I was melancholy because I was alone put me out of humour. I'm used to travelling alone. I live, like every real man, in my work. On the contrary, that's the way I like it and I think myself lucky to live alone, in my view this is the only possible condition for men, I enjoy waking up and not having to say a word. Where is the woman who can understand that?

Wenn ich so allein bin, siehst du, und mich an alles erinnere, das ist das Schlimmste, daß man allein nicht darüber lachen kann, oder dann ist es nur so ein böses und bitteres Lachen, so daß man später über genau die gleichen Dinge doch wieder heult.

I stand still so as not to hear steps in my apartment, steps that are after all only my own. The whole thing isn't tragic, merely tiresome. You can't wish yourself good night . . . Is that a reason for marrying?

Wenn ich so allein bin, siehst du, und mich an alles erinnere, das ist das Schlimme, daß man allein nicht darüber lachen kann, oder dann ist es nur so ein böses und bitteres Lachen, so daß man später über genau die gleichen Dinge doch wieder heult.

Wenn ich so allein bin, siehst du, und mich an alles erinnere, das ist das Schlimme, daß man allein nicht darüber lachen kann, oder dann ist es nur so ein böses und bitteres Lachen, so daß man später über genau die gleichen Dinge doch wieder heult (S. 173).

The very sight of a double room, unless it's in a hotel I can leave again soon, a double room as a permanent arrangement, sets me thinking about the Foreign Legion

I can't have feelings all the time. Being alone is the only possible condition for me, since I don't want to make a woman unhappy, and women have a tendency to become unhappy. Being alone isn't always fun, you can't always be in form.

Money gone. Expectations dashed. Friends vanished. Who's left? God is.

There are certain things no one can do for you. One of those is spending time with God.

Come aside by yourselves to a deserted place and rest a while.

Dios, que habita en su santo templo, es padre de los huérfanos y defensor de las viudas; Dios da a los solitarios un hogar donde vivir, libera a los prisioneros y les da prosperidad. SALMOS 68.5–6 (DHH)