Quotes About Solitude

In a monastery fish pond.' He crossed to the door and closed it carefully, before laying the

Maybe shy is when you're lonely and you don't think anybody can help you.

I fear I lose myself among books. I forget everything.

Era domingo. Se fumasse, acenderia agora um cigarro para ficar com ar de pessoa distraída. Mas assim tão sem vícios e portanto sem ter sobre o que derramar a distração que desejava, ai - assim ficava tão solta. Perdi até o sono, suspirou, como se o sono fosse a sua última reserva de segurança. E estou compreguiça de trabalhar e tenho vontade de falar uma palavrão, que merda também.

Que não suspeitará da tua perdição mergulhado como agora, a teu lado, na contemplação dessa paisagem interna onde não sabes sequer que lugar ocupas, e nem mesmo se estás nela.

Sobrevivo a cada manhã quando, cruzando as portas e corredores que me conduzem às ruas intermináveis, imagino sempre que sou invisível para cada um dos que passam.

Solitude Deprivation A state in which you spend close to zero time alone with your own thoughts and free from input from other minds.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone," Blaise Pascal famously wrote in the late seventeenth century.

It's now possible to completely banish solitude from your life. Thoreau and Storr worried about people enjoying less solitude. We must now wonder if people might forget this state of being altogether.

when you avoid solitude, you miss out on the positive things it brings you: the ability to clarify hard problems, to regulate your emotions, to build moral courage, and to strengthen relationships.

Solitude requires you to move past reacting to information created by other people and focus instead on your own thoughts and experiences—wherever you happen to be.

three crucial benefits provided by solitude: "new ideas; an understanding of the self; and closeness to others.

Examples similar to those given above are voluminous and point to a clear conclusion: regular doses of solitude, mixed in with our default mode of sociality, are necessary to flourish as a human being. It's more urgent now than ever that we recognize this fact, because, as I'll argue next, for the first time in human history solitude is starting to fade away altogether.

we need solitude to thrive as human beings, and in recent years, without even realizing it, we've been systematically reducing this crucial ingredient from our lives. Simply put, humans are not wired to be constantly wired.

solitude is about what's happening in your brain, not the environment around you. Accordingly, they define it to be a subjective state in which your mind is free from input from other minds.

for the first time in human history solitude is starting to fade away altogether.

give your brain the regular doses of quiet it requires to support a monumental life.

As Kethledge and Erwin explain, however, solitude is about what's happening in your brain, not the environment around you. Accordingly, they define it to be a subjective state in which your mind is free from input from other minds.

there's nothing wrong with connectivity, but if you don't balance it with regular doses of solitude, its benefits will diminish.

Schedule an escape for yourself every single week. And do it alone. Treat it like taking medicine.

Early in his visit he asked a senior monk, who had been living in a similar cabin for over fifteen years, if he ever got tired of walking the trail connecting the residences to the main building. "I'm only just starting to learn it," the monk replied mindfully.

Do what Thoreau did, which is learn to have a little disconnectedness within the connected world—don't run away.

As Kethledge and Erwin explain, however, solitude is about what's happening in your brain, not the environment around you. Accordingly, they define it to be a subjective state in which your mind is free from input from other minds. You can enjoy solitude in a crowded coffee shop, on a subway car, or, as President Lincoln discovered at his cottage, while sharing your lawn with two companies of Union soldiers, so long as your mind is left to grapple only with its own thoughts.

I am here alone for the first time in weeks, to take up my "real" life again at last.21 That is what is strange—that friends, even passionate love, are not my real life unless there is time alone in which to explore and to discover what is happening or has happened. Without the interruptions, nourishing and maddening, this life would become arid. Yet I taste it fully only when I am alone …