Quotes About Solitude

All liberation is loneliness

Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?

loneliness can fly a helicopter through a cut-out shape of a helicopter the same size as the helicopter and that's it's only skill and it isn't good enough but it's still amazing.

He wanted to hide by shrinking past zero, through the dot at the end of himself, to a negative size, into an otherworld, where he would find a place— in an enormous city, too large to know itself, or some slowly developing suburb— to be alone and carefully build a life in which he might be able to begin, at some point, to think about what to do about himself.

my favourite emotions include 'brief calmness in good weather' and 'i am the only person alive

i'm going to distance myself until the world is beautiful

I'd like to disappear one day...I get the feeling sometimes that I can do that. It's like there's some place I really want to go to, and I'm not sure where, but I can still go. I think I'd really like that. I'd sit down one afternoon. I'd say, "Okay now, Susan, time to go." Clasp my hands or something. Then I'd do it. I'd just be gone then. No one would know. I wouldn't even know.

It was enough to make me feel like retreating into some wooded or snowy clime, where only the most determined photographers or Mary-hunters might find me.

the desert, more than anything else, opens the human mind to observation, meditation, and initiation into meaning.

Once she entered the period of half-mourning, the widow would

details of my afternoon, staying silent until I mentioned the

This fact has never been published anywhere, and apart from my father I alone knew anything about it.

It is not easy to explain how I felt while I read, but I will try. No doubt you, as a reader, will understand. It appeared I found myself in a place where no one could bother me, where no one could reach me. I grew impervious to all the noises around me.

You were a quiet man, yet you took up a vast amount of silent space and that was what I missed.

Being alone is best. I mean, it's true, isn't it? In the end you'll be absolutely alone; therefore, being alone is natural. If you accept that, nothing bad can happen. That's why I shut myself away in my six-mat one-room apartment.

I've decided that the worst part of loneliness isn't being alone. It's being forgotten.

She's sitting propped up on the

I've decided the worst part of being lonely isn't being alone. It's being forgotten.

Yesterday I sat under the hickory tree in the front yard. It's the only place where I find rest and just feel fine. I know fine isn't a lot, but it's rare for me these days. Even when I'm happy, there is something in between me and whatever good news comes my way. It's like eating a butterscotch still sealed in the wrapper.

In the private library of my spirit, there is a dictionary of words that aren't.

But neither of us closed our eyes against the immeasurable dark of that silent night.

Living alone, you can do so many fantastic things Ive learned. You can like, walk around and have so many conversations with yourself and sing your thoughts. I think Im the only one that does that

Turns out freedom ain't nothing but missing you...

Just know I'm right here hopin' That you'll come in with the rain...