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Quotes About Solitude

If I had lost everything and was out on the streets with no money I would go sit in the library and read and meditate for weeks at a time.
~ Matthew Donnelly
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.
~ Henry David Thoreau
When in these fresh mornings I go into my garden before any one is awake, I go for the time being into perfect happiness.
~ Celia Thaxter
No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.
~ Cyril Connolly
Morning without you is a dwindled dawn.
~ Emily Dickinson
Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone.
~ Charles Alexander Eastman
We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so we tell ourselves. But it's a long way from the morning to the evening.
~ Rod McKuen
On a cold winter morning a cigar fortifies the soul.
~ Stendhal
What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself.
~ Emile M. Cioran
To sit at one's table on a sunny morning, with four clear hours of uninterruptible security, plenty of nice white paper, and a Squeezer pen - that is true happiness.
~ Winston Churchill
Of course there is nothing the matter with the stars It is my emptiness among them While they drift farther away in the invisible morning
~ W. S. Merwin
The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe
Sitting in the morning sun, I'll be sitting when the evening comes
~ Otis Redding
I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone. I was the girl he had chosen to kiss. He wanted, somehow to set me free. -Susie Salmon
~ Alice Sebold
Now, on nights that I can't sleep, I play video games alone until the morning.
~ Namie Amuro
The biggest task in the morning is to try to keep my headspace from being invaded by the outside world.
~ Austin Kleon
I awoke in the Midsummer not-to-call night, in the white and the walk of the morning
~ Gerard Manley Hopkins
I often write either really early in the morning, or really late at night.
~ Tracy Chapman
This early piece of the morning is mine.
~ Wallace Stegner
I have a big barn that I converted to my music studio, so I go there early in the morning and the first thing I do is rowing. And that's when I listen to a lot of music.
~ Tod Machover
There is no doubt that running away on a fresh, blue morning can be exhilarating.
~ Jean Rhys
Morning in the city is not a real morning; morning of the shepherd, that is the real morning!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Three in the morning. Making yourself a cup of coffee in the dark, using a flashlight when you pour the boiling water.
~ William Gibson
I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.
~ Jonathan Winters