Quotes About Solitude

No one is sexy at three am

Only by being alone – by resisting the blandishments to become part of the crowd – can the young thinker develop to think independently.

Writers, unlike most people, tell their best lies when they are alone.

I was still carrying the tuba, for no reason other than that, in my current circumstances, it passed for good company. That's another way of saying it was all I had.

My story and my stories are all, in one or another, the same, tales of solitude and the grand pursuit of connection, of success and the inevitability of defeat.

Wie viele einsame Kinder war sein Problem nicht die Einsamkeit an sich, sondern dass er nie allein gelassen wurde, um sie zu geniessen.

He told himself he would move faster and smarter alone, but the truth was that he was grieving for Aughenbaugh, and like a lot of grieving people who keep a habitual distance from their emotions, he thought that being alone was what he needed.

and like a lot of grieving people who keep a habitual distance from their emotions, he thought that being alone was what he needed.

I wasn't unkind to him. I just didn't talk to him. I didn't talk to anybody, and I didn't want anybody talking to me. That was the plan.

man coming toward him over the ice, watching

When she found herself alone in the house, she had a record of Highland reels and marches that she played very loud, because for unknown reasons the sound of bagpipes kept the creature at bay.

I don't mean to deny a feeling of solitude. It is there, reinforced by the fact that radio contact with the Earth abruptly cuts off at the instant I disappear behind the moon, I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known life. I am it. If a count were taken, the score would be three billion plus two over on the other side of the moon, and one plus God knows what on this side.

He had lived alone most of his life. He was used to places that were empty. He knew the real shelter of a home was inside yourself.

Loneliness had been the trash can fire he huddled around for most of his life.

King retired about five years ago and moved to East Bumfuck, Idaho—somewhere out in the woods with no phone and no internet. He went completely off the grid. She

Hopper's Nighthawks.

turned the car around and it floated quietly down Lookout Mountain to Laurel Canyon. He took a right and drove to the canyon market, where he bought a six-pack of Anchor Steam. Then he took his beer and his questions back up the hill to Mulholland. He drove to Woodrow Wilson Drive and then down to his small house that stood on cantilevers and looked out across the Cahuenga Pass.

She said the problem was he could not drop his guard completely and he knew this was true. Bosch had spent a lifetime alone, but not necessarily lonely.

In death, she would be treated the way she had been in life, left alone and forgotten.

I dwelt alone In a world of moan And my soul was a stagnant tide

New Year's Eve was a night for jazz, and the saxophone could cut you in half if you were alone.

You can't know people that well, man. Everybody's got a private room." "So

Happy is the man who finds refuge in himself.

Personally I would never help mankind. -John Hammond