Quotes About Solitude

We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections.

When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene.

She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions.

her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

En compañía de un libro uno se aburre mucho menos.

each found her greatest safety in silence…

I am amazingly absent; I believe I am the most absent creature in the world.

She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.

Elinor was then at liberty to think and be wretched.

I shall be glad to have the library to myself as soon as may be.

She wanted to be alone. Her mind was in a state of flutter and wonder, which made it impossible for her to be collected. She was in dancing, singing, exclaiming spirits; and till she had moved about, and talked to herself, and laughed and reflected, she could be fit for nothing rational.

An hour's complete leisure for such reflections as these, on a dark November day, a small thick rain almost blotting out the very few objects ever to be discerned from the windows...

I am worn out with civility. I have been talking incessantly all night, and with nothing to say. But with you there may be peace. You will not want to be talked to. Let us have the luxury of silence.

In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free from them there

Oh! Miss Woodhouse, the comfort of being sometimes alone!

Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions;

In music she had been always used to feel alone in the world.

Before the house-maid had lit the fire the next day, or the sun gained any power over the cold, gloomy morning in January, Marianne, only half dressed, was kneeling against one of the window-seats for the sake of all the little light she could command from it, and writing as fast as a continual flow of tears would permit her.

As soon as they were gone, Elizabeth walked out to recover her spirits; or in other words, to dwell without interruption on those subjects that must deaden them more.

she was now in great danger of suffering from intellectual solitude.

As reflexões deviam ser reservadas para as horas solitárias; sempre que podia, entregava-se a elas com alívio; e não se passava um dia sem uma de suas caminhadas, nas quais podia se entregar ao prazer das lembranças desagradáveis.