Quotes About Solitude

As I'm sure you know, to be in one's own room, in one's own bed, can often make a bleak situation a little better.

Keep anyone with whom you can read in silence.

The sky was dark blue twilight, pretty to look at but lonely to walk under.

I am often very lonely up on this hill by myself, and when Mr. Poe wrote to me about your troubles I didn't want you to be as lonely as I was when I lost my dear Ike.

It was a mystery, like what the S stood for in Theodora's name. I kept walking, with nothing but solitude for company. "Solitude" is a fancy name for being all by yourself. It's not a bad name, I thought.

If you enter a library looking for a particularly quiet place to read, head straight for the philosophy section. Because no one likes to read philosophy, no one will be there, and you will be undisturbed to read, to write or just to think and keep watch, as I do and have always done.

There are words for a woman who walks the streets late at night," she said, with another meaningful look. "Words like insomniac.

Telling yourself that something does not matter is one of the loneliest things you can do, because you only say it, of course, about things that matter very much But often, and this is the lonely part, they only mat- ter to you.

Water and I have always gotten along. I was not a child who complained about having to take a bath or a shower, because I enjoyed being alone somewhere where people could not interrupt me, or if they did, I could pretend not to hear them over the water running.

A library is like an island on a vast sea of ignorance.

I am a loneliness savant

The world is too quiet without you nearby.

You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.

In the end you have only you.

There is a special loneliness in unshared music, even if it was 'The White Cliffs of Dover'.

Assim, pois, apesar ou talvez devido à sua solidão, a sua vida se tornou extremamente cheia.

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

To me, that's the ultimate isolation - to be separated from my own mind.

I suddenly felt tired of listening to my own voice.

There I sat and waited. Alone in the dark. Because that's what detectives do. We sit. We watch. And we wait. Sooner or later something happens. It always does.

Then giving another taste to his drink, leaving it more than half full, he would make a rather stately progress to the booth, partly closing the door. He would take down the receiver and hesitantly begin speaking into the mouthpiece. Actually Mr. Sendel was talking only to himself. He would talk for several minutes into the silent phone, explaining how worried he was and how despairing it was at his time of life when all or almost all those dear to one have departed.

And with that, he was gone, leaving me alone. Only I wasn't alone. In fact, I knew I would never be alone again.

Drinking also maroons you without provisions on the island of self. Like most other promises it makes, alcohol's vow of kinship, that it will bridge your life to others, smooth the way, proves false. Fooled again: you're alone.