Quotes About Solitude

Ruben liked the shadows. They kept him safe.

I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.

The most extreme agony is to feel that one has been utterly forsaken.

Sada se ?esto glasno i cvrkutavo smejao, prosto se zanosio od smeha, ili je kucao u krevet i sam sebi odgovarao "molim" u raznim intonacijama, po ?itave sate.

But I do like to have peace and quiet for a good hour.

You can never get silence anywhere nowadays, have you noticed?

Loneliness is a crowded room.

Let it all go and enjoy the profound gifts found in your quiet places.

In the presence of God himself man stands always like a solitary tree in the wilderness.

The path of the king is a lonely one, and few are fit to walk it.

I love people. I love my family, my children ... but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.

The long-drawn virgin vales; the mild blue hill-sides; as over these there steals the hush, the hum; you almost swear that play-wearied children lie sleeping in these solitudes, in some glad May-time, when the flowers of the woods are plucked. And all this mixes with your most mystic mood; so that fact and fancy, half-way meeting, interpenetrate, and form one seamless whole.

Now, in calm weather, to swim in the open ocean is as easy to the practised swimmer as to ride in a spring-carriage ashore. But the awful lonesomeness is intolerable. The intense concentration of self in the middle of such a heartless immensity, my God! who can tell it?

when cruising in an empty ship, if you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

La felicidad busca la luz, por eso juzgamos que el mundo es alegre; pero el dolor se esconde en la soledad, por eso juzgamos que el dolor no existe.

Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe.

No man prefers to sleep two in a bed. In fact, you would a good deal rather not sleep with your own brother. I don't know how it is, but people like to be private when they are sleeping.

I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off—then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.

I stand alone here upon an open sea, with two oceans and a whole continent between me and law.

Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal.

palsied as it were, and leaning over sadly. It stood on

Each silent worshipper seemed purposely sitting apart from the other, as if each silent grief were insular and incommunicable.

Ahab stands alone among the millions of the peopled earth, nor gods nor men his neighbors