Quotes About Solitude

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

Ru ... ra ... wah ... who? He finally managed to say and lapsed into a frantic kind of silence. He was feeling the effects of having not said anything to anybody for as long as he could remember.

Where I am, it is always night.

Here's the thing about darkness: It turns the mind inward.

Time, Baby - so much, so much time left until the end of my life - sometimes I go crazy at how slowly time passes yet how quickly my body ages. But I shouldn't allow myself to think like this. I have to remind myself that time only frightens me when I think of having to spend it alone. Sometimes I scare myself with how many of my thoughts revolve around making me feel better about sleeping alone in a room.

So I came down here, to breathe dust and walk with the dogs-- to look at a rock or a cactus and know that I am the first person to see that cactus and that rock.

Sólo el individuo que vive en soledad es una criatura sujeta a leyes profundas y si sale al empezar la mañana, o mira hacia la tarde que está vibrante de vida y comprende lo que le rodea, entonces todo se desprende de él, como si de un cadáver se tratara, aunque siga en la plenitud de la vida.

Marshall alone his room with a comically tall stack of books, methodically absorbing their contents as though they were drugs...

just the two of them, him and Old Grand-Dad.

I have my books. I don't live in the actual world. I am imperturbable.

like me, you prefer the company of fine books to that of other people.

until he was standing alone before them.

I'm never better than when I'm alone.

Necessity for a more unyielding discipline of my life. Recognize the uselessness of blind anger. Limit society. Use children's school hours better, for work & solitude. Refuse to be distracted from own style o flife. Less waste. Be harder & harder on poems.

To many mortals silence great gain brings.

Living by yourself is better than living with a bad woman.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

There was something magical about an island—the mere word suggested fantasy. You lost touch with the world—an island was a world of its own. A world, perhaps, from which you might never return.

One is alone when the last one who remembers is gone.

Some of us, in the words of the divine Greta Garbo, want to be alone.

A man travels fastest who travels alone.

those who have listened do not find it easy to talk; they keep their sorrows and joys to themselves and tell no one.

I avoided my own friends and acquaintances, yet the loneliness of my existence was insupportable.

There was something magical about an island—the mere word suggested fantasy. You lost touch with the world—an island was a world of its own. A world, perhaps, from which you might never return. He thought: "I'm leaving my ordinary life behind me." And, smiling to himself, he began to make plans, fantastic plans for the future. He was still smiling when he walked up the rock-cut steps. In