Quotes About Solitude

After so long keeping to herself and tending her secret quietly, all these words just bubbled up out of her her like cool golden champagne.

There is no end and no beginning. There is only we two, alone in the dark, for always.

Mira, he supposed, had always lived in her own head and allowed others to visit once in a while. With advance notice. And extensive decontamination protocols.

How poor you are, September. You make my heart groan. I know about Homesickness. It begins with H. What will you do?

Wouldn't you like to have comrades?' But she would not like that. She wanted only to rest and to read her old, rain-swollen books, turning the pages carefully, so carefully.

No one cared who they'd been before, or even who they were now. Sometimes it felt like they lived at the bottom of the world. People at the bottom of the world mind their business, mostly.

A lot of married people certainly have wonderful relationships with their dogs, but when you're single and your dog is the only other living thing in your house, it's a really special relationship which I wanted CATHY to have.

I began to wonder if writers don't choose to love long-distance, a sure way of blending passion and prose. The love letter seems perfectly suited to the contradiction of a writer's life... the love letter may be the emblem of a vocation that demands solitude but desires communication.

When you're on your own, you look for signs. Sometimes you make them up, sometimes they're actually there, but most of the time you can't tell the difference from the two.

I liked to be off by myself, away from the eyes of adults who always had some task or errand to demand of an unoccupied child.

Hoodies up, heads bent, they passed one another in silence, like monks on their way to matins.

He was not afraid of silence, which most of us will rush to fill. And this, too: our holiest men have always gone into the wilderness to hear the voice of the Name. Avram

He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it.

that man always had been off in his own boat on some branch of the river no one else ever rowed on.

I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day.What hours, O what black hours we have spentThis night.

And I have asked to be Where no storms come

I have asked to be Where no storms come

Waarschijnlijk is het beter, dat ik van nu af aan in afzondering leef, dat is een draaglijker soort eenzaamheid dan die, ondergaan in het gezelschap van een ander.

Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.

she was determined to overcome her loneliness. She allowed no one else to know of the inner struggle, and she fought the battle alone, realizing that no one could help her. The

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

The path to enlightenment, to find out who you truly are, has to be taken alone.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.