Quotes About Solitude

I should not have minded that, if they would only have left me alone. But they wouldn't leave me alone. They seemed to think the opportunity lost, if they failed to point the conversation at me, every now and then, and stick the point into me.

She indulged in melancholy, that cheapest and most accessible of luxuries...

I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives.

There with the wood-fire, which was beginning to burn low, rising and falling upon him in the dark room, he sat with his legs thrust out to warm, drinking the hot wine down to the lees, with a monstrous shadow imitating him on the wall and ceiling.

Rarely did that hour of the evening come, rarely did I wake at night, rarely did I look up at the moon, or stars, or watch the falling rain, or hear the wind, but I thought of his solitary figure toiling on, poor pilgrim, and recalled the words: "I'm a-going to seek her, fur and wide. If any hurt should come to me, remember that the last words I left for her was, 'My unchanged love is with my darling child, and I forgive her!

This,' opening another door, 'is my chamber. I read here when the family suppose I have retired to rest. Sometimes I injure my health rather more than I can quite justify to myself, by doing so; but art is long and time is short.

The large rooms are too cramped and close. She cannot endure their restraint, and will walk alone in a neighbouring garden.

cada uno de los seres humanos es un profundo secreto para los demás.

Through all my punishments, disgraces, fasts, and vigils, and other penitential performances, I had nursed this assurance; and to my communing so much with it, in a solitary and unprotected way, I in great part refer the fact that I was morally timid and very sensitive.

This, you must know, is the growlery. When I am out of humour, I come and growl here.

Unico spiraglio di luce in tanta tristezza erano i miei libri; fui fedele a loro com'essi eran rimasti fedeli a me e li rilessi da cima a fondo non so quante volte.

A multitude of people and yet a solitude.

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

Select a room where you can be alone and undisturbed; sit erect, comfortably, but do not lounge; let your thoughts roam where they will but be perfectly still for from fifteen minutes to half an hour; continue this for three or four days or for a week until you secure full control of your physical being.

Whenever problems arise, get alone and listen quietly for God.

She always carried a book, though, in case she needed to read a few pages to avoid unwanted conversation.

No matter the turmoil, struggle, restlessness, and disdain for everyday life, I can rely on the mountain to be just where I left it, ready to hear my woes and absorb them and replenish my soul.

Humble is such a lonely word.

To live in joys that once have been, To put the cold world out of sight, And deck life's drear and barren scene With hues of rainbow light... Ye golden hours of life's young spring, Of innocence, of love and truth! Bright beyond all imagining, Thou fairy dream of youth! I'd give all wealth that years have piled, The slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child For one bright summer day.

Dear Friend, — A letter always feels to me like Immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend.

Home is where you can say anything you like cause nobody listens to you anyway.

I have my own little world, but it's okay — they know me here.

Seek the wilderness, for there is peace.

When a traveler asked Wordsworth's servant to show him her master's study, she answered, "Here is his library, but his study is out of doors."