Quotes About Solitude

When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.

Loneliness chosen is always preferable to loneliness imposed

a deep smothering emptiness

Nature was th eplace where one could escape the world of man made constuctions of race and identity.

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.

The difficult road is the road of conversion, the conversion from loneliness into solitude. Instead of running way from our loneliness and trying to forget or deny it, we have to protect it and turn it into fruitful solitude.... Loneliness is painful; solitude is peaceful. - Nouwen

What a world, eh? Sometimes I wish I could just live somewhere on Radio 4.

Being with him was like being alone underwater -- everything was slow; nothing counted; I could not be harmed; I would feel dry and cold when I resurfaced.

My intention had not been to find her, for I had been busy being lonely with someone else.

The hermit said, 'This is the way to be strong: when temptations start to speak in your mind do not answer them but get up, pray, do penance, and say "Son of God, have mercy upon me."

Toda la infelicidad humana tiene un mismo origen: no saber estar tranquilamente sin hacer nada en una habitación.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

All of human unhappiness comes from one single thing: not knowing how to remain at rest in a room. —Blaise Pascal

Writing is a solitary occupation.

Juan Fernandez islands." Cochrane drew on the cigar and watched its smoke drift out the window. "The islands are three hundred fifty miles off the coast, in the middle of nothing! They're where Robinson Crusoe was marooned, or rather where Alexander Selkirk, who was the original of Crusoe, spent four not uncomfortable years.

Lei si recava in biblioteca in media due volte a settimana, prendendo solo un libro o due per volta, perché ritornare a chiederne un altro era una delle sue poche gioie. Anche nei momenti in cui si sentiva più sola le piaceva trovarsi in mezzo ai libri, sebbene qualche volta fosse deprimente vedere il numero dei volumi che non aveva ancora letto.

In brief, I consider solitude so necessary to happiness

When she had fallen asleep on me, and the saw in the yard was quiet, and a blackbird was singing as the colors of things in the kitchen dimmed until nothing remained of them but lighter and darker shades of gray, I was completely happy.

I felt a great emptiness inside, as if I had been searching for some glimpse, not outside but within myself, and had discovered that there was nothing to be found.

She liked being alone, and she was alone a lot. When she met people, she often found them deeply strange, their behavior incomprehensible, their confidence unsettling.

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It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

The wise man will try to live unnoticed, so as to have no enemies.

I have spoken hitherto of those who command and those who obey, but there is a third type, namely, those who withdraw. There are men who have the courage to refuse submission without having the imperiousness that causes the wish to command. Such men do not fit readily into the social structure, and in one way or another they seek a refuge where they can enjoy a more or less solitary freedom.