Quotes About Solitude

I fix time machines during the day (whatever a day means for me—I'm not sure I even know that anymore), and at night I sleep alone, in a quiet, nameless, dateless day that I found, tucked into a hidden cul-de-sac of space–time.

This is what I remember: (i) the little pocket of space he creates for me, (ii) how it is enough, (iii) the sound of his voice,

Her own bedroom, her own bed. Her own yard. Without a restaurant downstairs, or sirens or cops or dead bodies. No fishy garbage fumes, or flumes of mildewing vegetation, no cacophony of five dialects being smashed together, a solid block of sensory overload rising up the dank central corridor of INT. CHINATOWN SRO.

She sat on a worn wooden bench, and read her book, and nibbled on her sandwich. The air was warm syrup, was literally thick with pollen and dandelion clocks and photons moving at the speed of light. An hour passed, then two. I never arrived at the park, wearing the only suit I never had, the one with a hole in the side pocket that no one ever saw.

Vigny, more secret,As if in his tower of ivory, retired before noon.

Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.

The mirror is my best friend because when I cry it never laughs.

I like to walk in rain, so that nobody can see my tears.

life could be wonder full if people would leave you alone...

I walk in the Rain, so people won't see my tears.

I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.

for it is the pure, *intellectual* soul alone, that can receive delight from solitude.

When they were gone, she found her time hung heavy upon her hands...

Lady Bella went up to her apartment, and betook herself to her Books, which supplied the place of all company to her.

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time. Of course I don't when John is here, or anybody else, but when I am alone.

We all need one another; much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private "home" of his own, so all human creatures need a place to be together in, from the two who can show each other their souls uninterruptedly, to the largest throng that can throb and stir in unison.

These months drive us to listen within.

Taylor first lived on the 11-acre Christmas-tree

He stayed close, and he stayed quiet. It was easy to do, almost; the silence above was so alarmingly complete that it was easier to keep it than to break it.

Soon the bare but civilized streets of St. Paul gave way to emptier places with shorter buildings and fewer streetlights … and then no buildings, and no streetlights, and after a few turns I was urging the Nissan along a two-lane road in the middle of what could best be described as the geographic center of Godforsaken, Bumblefuck. The

Have you had stretches of time where dating or serious relationships were nonexistent?

Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.

Alone had always felt like an actual place to me

Maybe I was more alone than anyone in the whole wide world. Maybe that was okay.