Quotes About Solitude

HOUSE Grow high. The devil can't find you. Grow deep. Buddha can't find you. Build a house and live there. Gourd creepers will climb over it, their flowers dazzling at midnight.

Green makes me think of silence, or maybe it's loneliness. I get the feeling of a terribly distant star.

Loneliness was an unsatisfied thirst for illusion.

The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone.

I am going to put myself to sleep now for a bit longer than usual. Call it Eternity

No matter how together we are, no matter how many friends or kids or partners or dogs or goats we have, there are always moments where we not only feel alone, but lonely.

My idea of outdoor activity is taking my book outside

I guess I've found that I'd rather be alone than with the wrong person.

Rather tiring to a person whose idea of outdoor activity was taking her book outside to read. "All

But here in the open air, this naked, solitary fiddle began a rhythm that played havoc with time, making patterns that set you to moving and told your heart it had been beating the wrong way all your misspent life.

She wanted to bottle how safe she felt in this moment, so she could drink of it later when loneliness and fear left her parched.

What good did it do to light the world on fire if she had to watch the glow alone?

Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.

Lost is lost; it's when you want someone to hold you but there is no one who can. Lost is alone, even when people are all around you.

When you come to that loneliness with yourself-when you are eternally alone-you are forced in upon yourself and are bound to become aware of your background

La soledad es peligrosa. Es adictiva. Una vez que te das cuenta de cuanta paz hay en ella, no quieres lidiar con la gente.

What occurs between the lover and the beloved is the entire fullness of the Godhead. .. the God is born in solitude, from the secret mystery of the individual. The separation between life and love is the contradiction between solitude and togetherness.

Sigo siendo del partido del viento, del clan de la distancia".

from within their thicket of nowhere left to hide

Perhaps partly because of the troubling business of being struggled over, I have come to value highly the privilege of getting away, of being alone. It has seemed to me that my most fruitful periods of work are the times when I have been able to get completely away from what others think, from professional expectations and daily demands, and gain perspective on what I am doing.

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

The moon is friend for the lonesome to talk to.

A man must find time for himself. Time is what we spend our lives with. If we are not careful we find others spending it for us. . . . It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?' . . . If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time—the stuff of life.

Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.