Quotes About Solitude

The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: On the scale of the worlds - to say nothing of stars or galaxies - humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal

Na Arean sat alone in space as a cloud that floats in nothingness. He slept not, for there was no sleep; he hungered not, for as yet there was no hunger. So he remained for a great while, until a thought came to his mind. He said to himself, I will make a thing.

The great radio telescopes of the world are constructed in remote locations for the same reason Paul Gauguin sailed to Tahiti: For them to work well, they must be far from civilization.

And just when she felt more capable of love than she had ever been, she found herself alone.

Los dioses no vienen a componer las cosas que nos salieron mal. Fíjese en la historia del hombre, y se dará cuenta de que siempre estuvimos solos

There is a music for lonely hearts nearly always. If the music dies down there is a silence. Almost the same as the movement of music. To know silence perfectly is to know music.

After the sunset on the prairie, there are only the stars

Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.

To be not alone, even for a few moments, is worth the pain and the danger.

But I think people always die alone... with or without relations.

You know, then, that the public Somebody you are when you "have a name" is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath and which is the sum of your actions and so is constantly in a state of becoming under your own volition — and knowing these things, you can even survive the catastrophe of Success!

Cuando estoy encerrada en mi cuarto, no leo; ¡escribo todo aquello que se me antoja, porque el papel, este blanco luminoso papel, me guarda con amor todo cuando le digo y nunca, jamás, se escandaliza, ni me regaña, ni se pone las manos abiertas sobre los oídos!..

Imagine how unbearably, how unutterably cold the Universe would be if one were all alone

The highlander seemed to float through life very much the same as a cloud in an empty sky, touching nothing, leaving no trace of his passing.

It wasn't simply his choosing to be alone that kept him that way; it was almost a condition of his existence. The feeling that he was an outsider had always been there.

He didn't try to think, didn't care to remember, but wished only to lose himself in the peace and quiet

What she heard was a deep and pervasive silence.

Miles saw him as a grief-stricken recluse, hiding from the world while he mourned his dead wife. Maybe that was the way everyone saw him. But Annie's death had not created the condition; it had merely emphasized it.

He saw little enough of people and little enough was more than enough, and he didn't look to give them reasons to seek him out.

This is what dying is like, he thinks. You do it alone. You are debased by it. You are exposed to your own weaknesses and to the harsh reality of what it means.

It is odd how we lead such separate lives so much of the time, keeping our thoughts to ourselves. We

Because I need it to be mine alone while I carve it. I need solitude with it as I shape it. When I'm finished, then the world can have it, but when I work on it, it is to be my vision and mine alone. I wish no one to see it before it is finished.

She's the first thing in my mind when I wake and the last thing in my mind before I sleep. I've never felt like this before, Zedd, never felt this alone before.

Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.