Quotes About Solitude

It's important to have quiet moments in your life, so you can remember what it feels like to be yourself.

I won't make Love, I will love the empty place where love should be.

I'm a person who is always there for people when they need a friend. I'm also the person who faces many issues alone, but will still do anything to see someone else smile.

I don't know if it is beautiful or sad, that I find more happiness within my own mind, more so than I do in the world that surrounds me.

It's in those quiet moments. That I simply accept the desire to be rescued.

Some days when nothing happens, are the best days.

I just feel better when people are not around.

Solitude can be defined as learning that we are not alone when we are alone. When we have achieved the stature of solitude, namely achieving a conscious relationship with ourselves, then we are freer to share ourselves with others, freer to receive their gifts in return and not be infantilized by the mutual archaic agenda of childhood, the agenda that covertly uses the other to provide for us.

Nobody ever lied about being lonely.

he never was so lonely when he was alone as when he was in the midst of people.

In crisis, the Old Army maxim ran, seek refuge in anonymity.

He was alone. He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life. He was alone and young and wilful and wildhearted, alone amid a waste of wild air and brackish waters and the seaharvest of shells and tangle and veiled grey sunlight.

My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.

Touch me. Soft eyes. Soft soft soft hand. I am lonely here. O, touch me soon, now. What is that word known to all men? I am quiet here alone. Sad too. Touch, touch me.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

no more pain. wake no more. nobody owns

He could not feel her near him in the darkness nor hear her voice touch his ear. He waited for some minutes listening. He could hear nothing: the night was perfectly silent. He listened again: perfectly silent. He felt that he was alone.

I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom.

Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn.

When the moon of mourning is set and gone. Over Glinaduna. Lonu nula. Ourselves, oursouls alone. At the site of salvocean. And watch would the letter you're wanting be coming may be. And cast ashore.

He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds.

She was alone and still, gazing out to sea; and when she felt his presence and the worship of his eyes her eyes turned to him in quiet sufferance of his gaze, without shame or wantonness.

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination

Alone, quite alone. You have no fear of that. And you know what that word means? Not only to be separate from all others but to have not even one friend. —I will take the risk, said Stephen. —And not to have any one person, Cranly said, who would be more than a friend, more even than the noblest and truest friend a man ever had.