Quotes About Solitude

Here by myself away from the clank of the world,   Tallying and talk'd to here by tongues aromatic

Te vagy az, akit gyakran és csendben fölkeresek, hogy veled lehessek, Amikor veled sétálok, vagy melletted ülök, vagy együtt maradok veled ugyanabban a szobában, Keveset tudsz arról a finom, elektromos t?zrÅ'l, ami a te kedvedért játszik bennem.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. (As quoted by Richard Powers in The Echo Maker)

Solitude appeared to me as the only fit state of man.

The weightiest objection to the mode of life of the confirmed bachelor: he eats by himself. Taking food alone tends to make one hard and coarse—it is only in company that eating is done justice.

My books. They were my only real friends growing up.

thus isolated, he became known for his brashness.

through most of the night. Even thus isolated, he became known for his brashness. On those occasions

service, which would relay messages to his mother. Ron Wayne drew a logo, using the ornate line-drawing style of Victorian illustrated fiction, that featured Newton sitting under a tree framed by a quote from Wordsworth: "A mind forever voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone." It was a rather odd motto, one that fit Wayne's self-image more than Apple Computer. Perhaps

There was a lonely intensity to him, reflected in his love of long-distance running and biking.

He who is abandoned is an abandoner.

Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being

But a solitary suffers terribly from any suspicion concerning the few people he loves—especially

The love of those who have not learned to stand solitude, or who "invite a witness when [they] wish to speak well of" themselves is not a virtue but simply a weakness; nor do they profit their neighbors.

Seek to be alone much to commune with Nature and be thus inspired by her mighty whisperings within your consciousness. Nature is a most jealous god, for she will not whisper her inspiring revelations to you unless you are absolutely alone with her. (p. 9)

In the wide pile, by others heeded not, Hers was one sacred solitary spot, Whose gloomy aisles and bending shelves contain For moral hunger food, and cures for moral pain.

I stood there alone in the eerily silent streets of Las Vegas and listened to my penis cry.

There was so much silence. The quiet felt like a huge new country that he could wander around inside for years without ever meeting its coastlines. A silence the size of the sky.

The quiet felt like a huge new country that he could wander around within for years without ever meeting its coastlines. A silence the size of the sky.

He took it in for a moment. No internet. No phone service beyond the front desk. No television. No news. No information flow at all. Just a music collection and, somewhere, a library he evidently had to be medically fit to browse. It was quiet. It was actually quiet. He couldn't even hear other people. This little room was as close to sensory deprivation as he'd experienced since … when? Childhood?

Nothing so reminds you like the sea that the enemy of life is not death but loneliness.

The genius in you isn't seeking confirmation from others, but quiet space for its ideas to blossom.

a few quiet moments in nature can bring about a radical shift in the most disagreeable of circumstances.

Blaise Pascal, who said, "All man's troubles derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.