Quotes About Solitude

I've learned all I need to know to live under a bed.

People would much rather die holding someone's hand than live alone.

Man, or woman, is not made to be worshiped. We are not physically cut out for it. Life in the spotlight, on the pedestal, at the top of the world was a lonely, singular, desolate, soul-killing place.

you know how sometimes you walk outside, like out of a cold room, and the sun is coming up and it feels warm on your face? And all you want to do is stand there and soak it up? Well, that's kind of how I feel. I want to stand here and soak in this a while.

To us—those who seek the solace of the marsh—it is a stage where God paints—yellow in the morning, green toward noon, brownish in the afternoon, and blood red toward evening. It is the sentinel that stands guard at the ocean's edge, protecting the sea from the runoff that would kill it. It is a selfless and sacrificial place. And when I close my eyes, it is also the smell of home.

And while she sounded lonesome, I doubted whether a whip-poor-will ever sounded that hauntingly pure.

If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have tasted a little of everything, and I have truly never enjoyed anything more.

One to whom books are as strangers has not yet learned to live. He is a solitary, though he dwell amid a vast population. On the other hand, he to whom books are as friends possesses a Key to the Garden of Delights, where the purest pleasures are open for his entertainment, and where he has for his companions the master minds of all the ages.

Men will live like billy goats if they are let alone.

It was still dark outside and bitter cold although mercifully there was little wind. Why is it calm in the early morning? You will notice that lakes are usually still and smooth before daybreak.

Idleness and solitude led to these dramatics: an ordinary turd indulging himself as the chief of sinners.

He was able to sit in silence for long stretches without feeling a need to make small talk.

I will walk by myself and cure myself in the sunshine and the wind.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.

MY SECRET IDENTITY IS The room is empty, And the window is open

Never since the beginning of the world has there been so little light. Our winter afternoons have been known at times to last a hundred years.

Inside is where we meet everyone else; it's on the outside that we are truly alone.

Thoreau loved ants. He'd meet one in the morning and spend the whole day talking to him.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

When you play chess alone it's always your move.

We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.

There is," he said, "a great sense of loneliness in the discharge of high public duties. The moment of decision is one of isolation.

You can just sit in here, impervious and invisible. So invisible you might even forget yourself.