Quotes About Solitude

Monica Swinton, twenty-nine, of graceful shape and lambent eye, went and sat in her living room, arranging her limbs with taste. She began by sitting and thinking; soon she was just sitting. Time waited on her shoulder with the maniac slowth it reserves for children, the insane, and wives whose husbands are away improving the world.

It's so quiet. More than anything, the silence makes me feel what I've lost. The Earth is no longer ours.

It's just me and my 6-month-old puppy. I am not dating anyone.

Twenty miles out of town. A million miles from the life you left behind.

It was quiet in the balcony. I often liked to sit up there and think about pellet stoves and then with my thumbs type my blog on my cell phone. My mother and the minister had no idea I was sitting right above them. This is a good thing to remember in this life: no one ever looks up.

It always is harder to be left behind than to be the one to go...

Krampus's voice trailed off, he glanced at Jesse. Jesse's head lay on his shoulder, his eyes closed; there came no sign of breath. "It appears I am talking to myself." Krampus crossed his arms atop his chest and grunted.

and a man who spends Christmas by himself was indeed a man alone in the world.

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

The thing that I still come back away with is how close so many people feel to the mountain Mt. Rainier emotionally and psychically, and yet how far away the world is when you're on the mountain.

In the deep forests of Mount Rainier, the sun doesn't rise, it leaks in thin bands through the trees.

People used to avoid mountains, but now we seek their company. We come for the pretty sights, but also to find a place still free from those life-saving constraints. We come to the mountain seeking beauty and terror.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.

He went back to his solitary wanderings. Believing any set of four walls to be a tomb or a trap, he preferred to float over the most barren of open spaces.

I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no other sign of life but a hawk, and a black beetle easing over white stones.

I am ignoring you. In fact, I think you are a figment of my imagination.

Loneliness is an opportunity to find yourself. In solitude, you are least alone.

In solitude you are least alone. — Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone. Make good use of it.

A wise man can always be found alone. A weak man can always be found in crowd.

and time was empty without you to see it.

You're a loner in body, mind, and soul. A writer who spends a day of solitude in the office is plagued by a mind that travels with the body. The work never stops.

Off the road, life was a puzzle. Without