Quotes About Solitude

for now, none of the lights are on and that's all there is, black steel and slate sky.

Men were drawn to civilization; only the most severe ascetic among them relished isolation. Penitent hermits craved seclusion. Being away from the squalor of humanity was an integral part of their spiritual monasticism. They could talk more readily to God in the silence of their mountaintop cave or their desert isolation. It was easier to believe that the voice you heard responding to your queries issued from a divine trumpet if there were no other souls nearby. But he was a soldier.

nothing was worse than getting stuck in a situation like that with nothing to read.

Hold on a second. I can talk,' I say. 'Guys.' I look at all three of them in turn. 'One thing that they do in here is give you a lot of time to think. I can't explain it; once you come in, time just slows down-' 'Well, you don't have any interruptions, that's probably it-' 'Also I think the clocks are a little off-' I wave my hand. 'Point is, you have time to think about how you got here...

Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of medication- an investugation of my own life. It has nothing to do with I've got to get another play2

Loneliness is holding in a joke because you have no one to share it with.

If he wants me to stay away, he should leave me alone.

All I have is my mind, and nobody can see that.

She turned off the water, and for a moment she was a newcomer again, alone in the house after George had gone to work.

The spot where Helga Crane sat was a small oasis in a desert of darkness.

A boat is sort of a litmus test for relationships, the close quarters and solitude compelling people into either a warm bond or into mutiny and murder. As

I only drink with other people, or when I'm alone.

A companhia de um paulista é a pior forma de solidão.

Marriage is the ultimate solitude with minimal privacy.

Unshed tears of an unrequited desire for vengeance are exhausting and require privacy.

The thinkers in their youth are almost always very lonely creatures. . . . The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself least lonely, most positively furthered and most richly fed. —WILLIAM JAMES1

I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again.

At night, when I am alone, I call for you, and whenever my ache seems to be the greatest, you still seem to find a way to return to me.

Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.

I think of you, I dream of you, I conjure you up when I need you most. This is all I can do, but to me it isn't enough. It will never be enough, this I know; yet what else is there for me to do? If you were here, you would tell me, but I have been cheated of even that. You always knew the proper words to ease the pain I felt. You always knew how to make me feel good inside.

I'm going to miss you while you're gone.

She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.

In the distance, he could see Molly lying in the tall grass off to the side of the house.

What do you like most about being here? The quiet. When I'm here, no one asks me questions or asks me to do stuff. I can sit here and think.