Quotes About Solitude

I am quite alone. I am neither happy nor unhappy; I lie suspended like a hair or a feather in the cloudy mixtures of memory.

I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

her eyes downcast all the while/ and singing to herself

In the absence of an audience, I will write down my story so that it waits like a restful beast with lungs breathing and heart beating.

I was an only child-- and so I became an only man." Joshua Bigg The Tenth Commandment

When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.

It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.

It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.

What modern man wants is a monk's cell, well lit and heated, with a corner from which he may look at the stars. Page 59

We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

Sleeping people are so remote.... Right here, but out of communication. That's what strikes humans as uncanny about sleep. Its utter privacy. The sleeper turns his back on everyone.

Locked up eighteen years, without even a television set or a newspaper. Needlework might seem pretty important if it was all you could do.

She glanced over abstractedly, still keeping company with her most recent thought.

I said nothing. I'm good at saying nothing. I don't like talking. I could go the rest of my life without saying another word, if I had to.

My idea of a good time is sitting quietly with my own thoughts and not making eye contact with anyone.

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

I'm so accustomed to being alone.

I love no one but you, I have discovered, but you are far away and I am here alone. Then this is my life and maybe, however unlikely, I'll find my way back there. Or maybe, one day, I'll settle for second best. And on that same day, hell will freeze over, the sun will burn out and the stars will fall from the sky.

But I must admit I miss you terribly. The world is too quiet without you nearby.

For Beatrice, summer without you is as cold as winter. Winter without you, is even colder.

Summer seems so cold without you, winter is even colder.

For Beatrice- When we were together I felt breathless. Now you are.

there's nothing wrong with occasionally staring out the window and thinking nonsense, as long as the nonsense is yours.

I thought maybe if I stared hard enough, I could see the lights of the city I had left so very far behind. This was nonsense, of course, but there's nothing wrong with occasionally staring out the window and thinking nonsense, as long as the nonsense is yours.