Quotes About Solitude

When I was a kid we had a quicksand box. I was an only child, eventually.

Hermits have no peer pressure.

Right now I'm not involved with anybody, but I hope by 75 I will be again.

We carry our own wilderness with us.

aspirava a uma paz que só a inocência na solidão pode proporcionar, a paz de um solitário inocente, que não abandonou nem traiu ninguém para estar só, um solitário que se conserva à margem do sangue e do sofrimento, sem que lhe possam ser pedidas contas.

He seemed to be dancing alone, Cressida a mere elemental shadow around him. How beautiful he looked.

In moments of reverie; he sometimes wondered whether he himself was but the subject of a lonely pIerson's writing, as Ays and Finnigin were his.

I like to have room for my thoughts and the silence to think them in.

When we'd first moved home, I had missed the ground bustle, but had since fallen in love with the feeling of the open air around us, the play of winds among the thinner branches, the illusion that one could be all alone.

This hour belonged to Tamara alone.

Did he imagine the rustle of garments, the brief touch of fingers on his brow? He opened his eyes, expection violation, but there was no one there.

Walking towards the signal, where the sun hung high in the sky, the traveller was a solitary figure in an uncluttered scene. He felt as if this was the ending of something, not the beginning. He could walk away out of existence. Yet his boots made a solid, satisfactory sound against the road and his flesh felt real and comfortable about his bones. He was a good performer.

As the warm and living palpitation diminished into the cold and silent roches, the dwindling group of unroched saw their hopes become fears. All had succumbed eventually. All. Until Casmeer had been left alone in the city, listening to only a sour wind and the quiet inner throb of his own grief.

The outside world was eclipsed from my mindscape; rarely have I experienced such moments of total reality.

He has been away from the world for a long time, and a cage is no place to reacquaint yourself with reality.

If he could shut himself away from all this, hide his being deep within his mind, he might survive.

My path is lonely and made all the more so by all that I feel for you in so many ways.

Last night was last night. Rayojini was a loner; she did not thirst for a satellite.

You were a lonely child," Tiy pronounced, "and you are a lonely woman.

Bayard is not exactly the sort of person anyone could describe as a friend," he said. "He exists in a universe populated solely by himself.

His life comprised small, precise pleasures. Most people liked him, for he was quiet and gentle, but he did not yearn for their company. His ironic smile, springing auburn hair and attenuated good looks pleased women, yet he seemed not to notice the messages in their eyes.

I heard your dreams, Tamara Trewlynn. I heard your lonely call.

The High Place was special to Owen: it had always drawn him. It was as if a quiet, insistent voice spoke to his inner mind, telling him what he should do there.

They were not quite like any humans I had met; perhaps touched with his difference, contaminated by the strangeness of his eternal solitude.