Quotes About Solitude

The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone.

It was the softest bed she had ever lain in. But then, it was the only bed she had ever lain in.

Well, imagine you are alone in a room....Are you the best, most special person in the room right now? Yes. That's the gift of being alone.

She is alone with an unattended desk light whose electricity is an expenditure waiting to be itemized and eliminated in the next budget of Lift magazine, Covering the Elevator Industry for Thirty Years.

scattered parkgoers. Cora hunkered and

When the work was done, and the day's punishments, the night waited as an arena for their true loneliness and despair.

Hard weeks, the kind where you realize you've engineered it so that nobody has anything on you, and that means nobody has anything for you: help, a kind word.

There were hours when every last person on Earth thought they were the last person on Earth, and it was precisely this thought of final, irrevocable isolation that united them all.

One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.

I have nobody left to whom I can tell the story.

I was reminded of how years before, he had drifted away from one of our afternoon strolls and got surrounded by the tide - Corrigan, isolated on a sandbar, tangled in light, voices from the shores drifting over him, calling his name.

Here comes loneliness applauding itself all the way down the street.

But it was only genius if you thought of it first. A teacher told him that. Genius is lonely.

Why did you leave the horse alone? —To keep the house company, my son. ~ MAHMOUD DARWISH

Very quiet and yet quieter living-for-ourselves.

Le Silence est la Poésie meme pour moi.

God is the partner of our most intimate soliloquies. That is to say, whenever you are talking to yourself in utmost sincerity and ultimate solitude--he to whom you are addressing yourself may justifiably be called God.

He yearned for privacy and for solitude. After my transportation to a so-called "rest camp," I had the rare fortune to find solitude for about five minutes at a time.

Cuando un hombre descubre que su destino es sufrir, ha de aceptar dicho sufrimiento, pues ésa es su sola y única tarea. Ha de reconocer el hecho de que, incluso sufriendo, él es único y está solo en el universo. Nadie puede redimirle de su sufrimiento ni sufrir en su lugar. Su única oportunidad reside en la actitud que adopte al soportar su carga.

rush of the busy week is over and the void within themselves becomes manifest. Not a few

Spending the last several years alone had allowed her to grow in strength. Independence and self-reliance were great things. The best part about them was that the only person who could let you down was yourself.

No help or hope of help existed.

I am in the mood to dissolve into the sky

For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.