Quotes About Solitude

The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.

All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

Tis the last rose of summer. Left blooming alone.

For one mother, joy is the quiet pleasure found in gently rubbing shampoo into her young child's hair. For another woman it's taking a long walk alone, while for yet another it's reveling in a much-anticipated vacation.

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone.

Genius develops in quiet places, character out in the full current of human life.

Catching something is purely a byproduct of our fishing. It is the act of fishing that wipes away all grief, lightens all worry, dissolves all fear and anxiety.

Pillars are fallen at thy feet Fanes quiver in the air A prostrate city is thy seat And thou alone art there.

True happiness is of a retired nature and an enemy to pomp and noise; it arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self; and, in the next, from the friendship and conversations of a few select companions.

We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts we get under no other condition.

For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.

Seldom can the heart be lonely, If it seeks a lonelier still; Self-forgetting, seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men!

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years.

Truthfully, I mostly can be as private as I want.

Travelling alone gave me time and space, free of the pressures of trying to verbalise experiences, so I could simply feel the joy of my own existence. This was an extremely powerful realisation: I didn't just find strength and solace in being alone, but I learned to love it.

When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.

I'm usually the person laughing to myself on the tube.

When I'm alone in my hotel room in some foreign place, I feel very lonely. Then I tuck into my favourite chocolate - Chuckles or Whispers - for some comfort.

I tend to be a bit of a hermit. A bit monkish. I like to tune out the context.

I like to be alone and listen to music. Every match I play, I have a tune in my head over and over. It might only be a few words or a small piece of the tune, but it can drive you mad.

The desert is natural; when you are out there, you can get in tune with your environment, something you lose when you live in the city.

I like to get in tune with my self and really give myself the time to just be.