Quotes About Solitude

The strangest thing is driving on smooth roads. No one passes and nothing moves.

she had the extra blanket.

SITTING IN THE QUIET of his apartment's shaded living room, the Teacher chucked his Treo across to the couch

dark roads in the Catskills

on Lake Street.

like. It's the one place at home I can kick back, be by myself, and do whatever I want. Mom says I keep it too messy, but the truth is, I just have too much STUFF.

it wasn't that the forty-eight-year-old doctor didn't like people; he simply liked being alone better.

His first time in South Africa, and there's a desolate beauty here, if one has the time to appreciate it.

thick with woods. "Who's

I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.

During the first couple of years at school... I used to take my lunch and go down by the old fair grounds & sit alone by the side of the road & eat it... Those lovely, lonely lunches stick deep in my memory as unhappy times.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.

I think rather than being unhappy with somebody, being alone and happy is better.

I really don't like the idea of people knowing what I am doing. I find telling everybody what you had for breakfast is really uninspiring.

And if, happy in the lot of no created thing, he withdraws into the center of his own unity, his spirit, made one with God, in the solitary darkness of God, who is set above all things, shall surpass them all.

Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.

Hotel rooms inhabit a separate moral universe.

I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.

For each one of us stands alone in the midst of a universe.

If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be unknown, putting it all on the paper.

I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon.