Quotes About Solitude

He had had a lonely life and a lonely death. But it had been the kind of loneliness that spends itself in living amongst people, and in passing the time that way not unpleasantly. Major Palgrave might have been a lonely man, he had also been quite a cheerful one.

Don't be a fool," Vera Claythorne urged herself. "It's all right. Elly Kleinman and others are downstairs. All four of them. There's no one in the room. There can't be. You're imagining things, my girl.

Do you like sitting here looking out to the sea?" - Vera E. Claythorne

Living alone, with no one to consult or talk to, one might easily become melodramatic, and imagine things which had no foundation on fact.

He thought: Best of an island is once you get there—you can't go any farther … you've come to the end of things…. He knew, suddenly, that he didn't want to leave the island. VI

The truth is I'm not very good with people. I think trees are much nicer than people, more restful.

One little soldier boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself and then there were None.

All you need is a chair and a table and a typewriter and a bit of peace

He had had a lonely life and a lonely death. But it had been the kind of loneliness that spends itself in living amongst people, and in passing the time that way not unpleasantly.

I think trees are much nicer than people, more restful.

Snobbery here raised its hideous head and marooned her on a permanent island of loneliness.

Only a rose-shaded lamp shed its glow on the figure in the armchair.

I'm afraid you'll find it very quiet down here, Hastings." "My dear fellow, that's just what I want.

In the heart of the desert or in the heart of a crowd—what does it matter? The inmost core of man is solitary—alone. I have always been —a lonely soul....

I'm out for a walk. I like walking at night. Nobody stops you and says silly things, and I like the stars, and things smell better, and everyday things look all mysterious.' 'All of that I grant you freely,' I said. 'But only cats and witches walk in the dark. ...

Well, you know, breakfast isn't always a chatty meal.

Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.

Being alone and being lonely are two different things. (Yasu)

Unless you find yourself in a book, you have a hard time finding anybody else.

I have made a pact with the night, I have felt it softly healing me

Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

I didn't mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.

My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.

a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.