Quotes About Solitude

Silence was his escape, but silence is rarely a refuge. His thoughts still haunted him.

Despair has its own voice. It is a prayer unlike any other.

I was so lonely." And Father Time said, "You were never alone.

I don't need company,' I [Benjamin Kierney] said. 'I'm just thinking about things.' 'Your fate,' the Lord said. 'Something like that.' 'Perhaps I can help.' I actually laughed. 'Why? If I were God, I would have given up on me long ago.' 'But you are not,' he said, 'and I never will.

He would close his eyes and with a blissful smile begin to move to his own sense of rhythm. It wasn't always pretty. But then, he didn't worry about a partner. Morrie danced by himself.

I was stunned at how easily things went on without me

Have you ever considered how many living things there are on earth? People. Animals. Birds. Fish. Trees. It makes you wonder how anyone could feel lonely. Yet humans do. It's a shame.

He was doing what man does when left with nothing. He was telling himself his own life story.

Our voices dissipated into the empty ocean night, and at that moment it was possible to believe we were the only people left on Earth.

But you can touch everything and be connected to nothing.

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.

all she said was, "I was so lonely." And Father Time said, "You were never alone.

He waded into the still water. And began to swim.

How did you do it, Benji? How did you survive all that way alone? I was never alone, the man said

The old darkness has taken a seat alongside him. He is used to it by now, making room for it the way you make room for a commuter on a crowded bus.

He kept the outside world at bay by keeping the inside world at hand.

Seguirei adiante sozinho, de modo que você possa me procurar por lá.

She sees how you diminish her solitude, and, more meaningfully, she sees you seeing, which sparks in her that oddest of desires an I can have for a you, the desire that you be less lonely.

It leaves space for your thoughts to echo

So Erica felt better in a place like this, separated from the rest of us, where people could live in their minds without feeling bad about it.

You have only recently been introduced to the types of silences that exist in a home with one occupant, and emotionally you stagger about this new reality like a sailor returned to land after decades at sea.

He was aware that alone a person is almost nothing.

The air is so dry, so clear, and there's so few people, almost no lights. And you can lie on your back and look up and see the Milky Way. All the stars like a splash of milk in the sky. And you see them slowly move. Because the Earth is moving. And you feel like you're lying on a giant spinning ball in space.

it's possible to open our eyes, to see, to recognize our solitude—and at the same time to not be entirely alone.