Quotes About Solitude

The bush is not merely a holiday destination; it's where you learn how insignificant you truly

The bush is not merely a holiday destination; it's where you learn how insignificant you truly are.

and for a moment she was left blessedly alone.

Be an island unto yourself. Take refuge in yourself and not in anything else.

It is better to live alone than to have a fool for a companion.

watching the undergraduates make out. They laughed, but the sight hurt her, like a tightness in her chest that kept her from breathing freely. How long had it been since she'd kissed anyone?

In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking-chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel.

He picked up three long fresh stalks of timothy and braided them together. He upended the scythe and thrust the handle deep enough into the soft earth so it would stand upright. He tied the braided grass to one of the grips and slipped the whetstone into the loops so it would stay. Then he walked off into the woods.

Cuando la situación se vuelve insoportable, cuando a nadie le importas ni le importaste nunca... tiras una botella al mar y con ella se va una parte de tu soledad

Sometimes I sets and thinks, and sometimes I just sets.

Anger was foreign to him; he had only felt it once before. But now it came, a wash of it that made him swell, that drained and left him weak. And he himself was the object of it. For hadn't he known? Hadn't he taken a name for himself, knowing that the name was a crystallization of all he had ever been and done? All he had ever been and done was alone. Why should he have let himself feel any other way?

guess sometimes the world's too much to live with and a body sort of has to turn away from it to rest.

Hay en ciertas almas vivas una atroz forma de soledad, tan grande que debe ser compartida como la compañía que comparten los seres inferiores. Esa soledad es mía, y quiero que con esto sepas que en la inmensidad hay alguien más solo que tú.

Hasta la soledad tiene un límite para quienes están suficientemente solos durante suficiente tiempo

Inner space is so much more interesting, because outer space is so empty.

When you sit alone quietly, it's something beautiful, even if nobody sees it.

We have millions of ways to lose this precious time—we turn on the TV, or pick up the telephone, or start the car and go somewhere. We are not used to being with ourselves, and we act as if we don't like ourselves and are trying to escape from ourselves. Meditation

if you like to spend a lot of your time at a café, it may not be because that particular café is so interesting. It may be because you're afraid of being alone; you feel that you always have to be with other people. When you turn on the television, it may not be because there's a fascinating program you want to see; it's because you're afraid of being alone with yourself.

When you turn on the television, it may not be because there's a fascinating program you want to see; it's because you're afraid of being alone with yourself.

Accustomed as we are to being constantly occupied, if these occupations should happen to be taken from us, we find ourselves empty and abandoned. We then refuse to confront ourself and instead go off in search of friends, to mix in with the crowd, to listen to the radio or to the television, to get rid of this impression of emptiness.

I journal at four or five in the morning.

To some extent, being an entrepreneur is a lonely journey.

I'm attracted to the journeys of isolated characters.

I think I jump around more when I'm alone.