Quotes About Solitude

On this particular expedition, we shall travel to a vast desolate, white expanse stretching onward to the horizon in all directions... A place where you could gain nothing or lose everything and no one would ever know. A place well-beyond that which you think you understand.

One world at a time. —Thoreau, on his deathbed

When alone, a man never had to worry about trusting his companions.

Relax, Klara, you can finish your one-woman book club as soon as somebody gets home.

Consolation is about sharing loneliness and making it bearable.

Think about that for a moment, because it's important. Where do you go to hide from the end of the world?

But this time of the year she was in her vaults, underground, and here she resided alone, spending most of her life in darkness, like a tongue

spending most of her life in darkness, like a tongue.

Write on a screen that has no Internet access.

every man is an island and at the same time also robinson crusoe.

Wanda: I can't stand people, I hate them. Henry: Oh yeah? Wanda: Do you hate them? Henry: No, but I seem to feel better when they're not around.

Murió mi eternidad y estoy velándola.

Hay soledad en el hogar sin bulla, sin noticias, sin verde, sin niñez.

In torment, there was release. In the darkness, there was light. In solitude, there were companions.

The personal desolation Christ is experiencing on the cross is what you and I should be experiencing--but instead, Jesus is bearing it, and bearing it all alone. Why alone? He's alone so that we might never be alone.

And if you can't shape your life the way you want, at least try as much as you can not to degrade it by too much contact with the world, by too much activity and talk. Try not to degrade it by dragging it along, taking it around and exposing it so often to the daily silliness of social events and parties, until it comes to seem a boring hanger-on.

If you cannot fashion your life as you would like, endeavour to do this at least, as much as you can: do not trivialize it through too much contact with the world, through too much activity and chatter. Do not trivialize your life by parading it, running around and displaying it in the daily stupidity of cliques and gatherings until it becomes like a tiresome guest. (As Much As You Can)

Worry in the dark can make it even darker.

As I drank my coffee, I listened attentively, but I heard nothing. I thought, maybe this is because there's too much noise in my world.

When you're alone, it's easier, she said a little wistfully. You can do what you want. You don't have to go home.

Wouldn't it be a treat, Chaz thought, to have just one goddamn day when nobody fucked with my head?

subsisting mostly on Popsicles and so-called

Stranahan didn't consider himself an eccentric or a hermit, even though at age fifty-three he lived alone on an island at the edge of the Atlantic with no landline, satellite dish or personal computer.

Mile after mile of rolling blue prairie flows beneath us, stretching to the ends of the earth, revealing nothing.