Quotes About Solitude

I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.

Isolation is the optimum environment for creativity.

All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.

What I want, he said softly, is to stand in this meadow and walk in the light of the sun.

Sometime or other everybody wishes everybody would go away. Sometimes I'll wish you would go away. What I'm telling you now is that even at those times, even if I tell you to go away, you don't have to go away.

The loneliness of power.

But now, well, he keeps telling me that solitude is the foundation of true wisdom, that all the brilliant thoughts in this house come as the desperate cry of one human being to another, saying, Know me, live with me in the world of my mind.

Why do you say that I am alone? My body is with me wherever I am, telling me endless stories of hunger and satisfaction, weariness and sleep, eating and drinking and breathing and life. With such company who could ever be alone?

None of us could be happy for long, doing nothing. Or perhaps it's just that none of us could be happy living with no other company than ourself.

Isolation is—the optimum environment for creativity. It

You must be good company for yourself. Not me. My memories. Maybe that's who you are, what you remember.

Women were more complete inside themselves. They were also better at living in their children. They were never as solitary as a man alone.

All the common people want is to be left alone. All the ordinary soldier wants is to collect his pay and not get killed. That's why the great forces of history can be manipulated by astonishingly small groups of determined people.

He had thought that he valued his solitude; now, though, with solitude forced upon him, he felt an urgent need to talk, to be heard by someone, as if he could not be sure he even existed without someone's conversation as evidence.

It was a new thing in the world, to have someone to talk to who was not substantially yourself.

It's better to lose someone you love...than to have no one to lose.

So? Sometime or other everybody wishes everybody would go away. Sometimes I'll wish you would go away. What I'm telling you now is that even at those times, even if I tell you to go away, you don't have to go away.

Novinha could not bear the prospect of company, of kindness, of people trying to console her.

Yes, he was alone, but he needed to be alone; until now, he had not really understood how painful and heavy it was to have the needs of others always in his heart and on his mind.

He spent the afternoon alone in the streets.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we're not alone.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.