Quotes About Solitude

Así, quieto y ausente, estoy bien. En el color blanco encuentro el reposo. Déjame dormir. Déjame flotar. Sólo quiero navegar en las aguas insípidas del olvido.

Por lo pronto no se me ocurre qué más comentarte, bueno, lo que ya sabes, que aquí tengo todo el tiempo del mundo para pensar en ti, que es lo que suelo hacer cuando no quiero pensar en nada

How do we best cultivate a quiet inner spirit? Do we attend to what feeds and expands our soul? What helps us focus on God? Where is our sacred space? Have we made a cell in our home, at the ocean, or in our favorite park? It is that place where we are away and alone.

The truth is that even ten minutes spent looking at the sky with nothing to fill the time can feel long.

Be a sparrow, I told myself. Be silent and fly away. No one will bother you if you disappear.

Silence was the key to self-preservation.

She daydreamed and made up stories in her head, and the cloister and solitude of the pieta suited her.

Dear reader who finds this, if I am gone, My name is Jinny I lived here on this island. I loved it. I stayed. I held on. Then, after a pause, Jinny added a line. She'd never be able to write it in ink, bit it was there all the same, a ghost in the letter. As she slid the piece of paper into her pocket, she whispered it aloud. I held on Too long.

Dear reader who finds this, if I am gone My name is Jinny I lived on this island I loved it I held on Too long

I talk to myself everyone once in a while. Give myself very good advice. Sometimes I even take it.

Because I know more and more that this glass here is so very dark, that this really is a long loneliness, that it is both lonely and long.

For the first time in my life, I fully understand the expression "I can't hear myself think.

I live in my own little world. But its ok, they know me here.

I didn't like being alone. Being alone was slightly better than having to deal with people, that's all. Or so I'd convinced myself.

Stuart Weintraub was not only without Chloe, but also without sad Stuart eyes!

But he was fine keeping mostly to himself.

open prairie. For hours, Oscar had been

The name Cthulhu provides an important and fascinating parallel with pre-Islamic mystical Sufi practice. Cthulhu is very close to the Arabic world Khadhulu (also spelled al qhadhulu). Khadhulu is translated as 'Betrayer,' 'Forsaker,' or 'Abandoner.' Many Sufis and Muqarribun writings use this term 'Abandoner.' In Sufi and Muqarribun writings 'abandoner' refers to the power that fuels the practices of Tajrid 'outward detachment' and Tafrid 'interior solitude.

Avoid groups of people who are arguing.

some individuals choose to move to remote and exotic locations

Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

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.

And yet this self, contains Tides, continents and stars?a myriad selves, Is small and solitary as one grass-blade Passed over by the wind Amongst a myriad grasses on the prairie.