Quotes About Solitude

I came home at dusk with my ears ringing from the quiet.

Wherever I went I felt like the last person awake in a room full of sleepers

He was free and unencumbered. Which is to say alone and unemployed.

Within sight of Seattle and Vancouver are flanks of the earth that have yet to feel a human footprint.

Hazel missed trees. She wanted just one sturdy elm with a branch strong enough to hold a swing. And she didn't want to live in a hole in the ground, with the snakes and tarantulas, and sleeping so near to the stink of burning cow manure.

The fishing is best where the fewest go,

A Lonely Place Is an Unmotivated Place

Jayber Crowe (by Wendell Berry)

Feel free to lift together, but fail alone.

I believe that music and people don't mix; that music should be appreciated alone without seeing or knowing who the musicians are and without other people around. Just listening to music for its own sake, not listening to the people around you and not filtered through what you know about the musician's personal life.

Yet something keeps dragging us back to other people. We know we are less than human when we are all alone.

Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books.

Red like blood White like bone Red like solitude White like silence Red like the beastly instinct White like a god's heart Red like thawing hatred White like a frozen, pained cry Red like the night's hungry shadows Like a sigh piercing the moon it shines white and shatters red

I migliori compagni di viaggio sono i libri: parlano quando si ha bisogno, tacciono quando si vuole silenzio. Fanno compagnia senza essere invadenti. Danno moltissimo senza chiedere nulla.

La grande scoperta che ho fatto a Daigo è che si hanno dentro ancora (certo un bel giorno poi no!) tante e tante risorse che basta mettersi nelle condizioni per farle venir fuori. La solitudine, il prender distanza dal mondo, lp star lontano dalle gabbie in cui uno per necessità o per malriposto senso del dovere si mette, servono enormemente. Se ci aggiungi la natura, la formula mi pare infallibile.

There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer — because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.

The human heart is a dark forest

You take a shower, your head is up, far away from everything, lost in the clouds, but down in the tub, man, you know who you are.

What if you don't have to be alone in your whale? Like what if that's the point? To find the right person to sit there in the whale with you.

Trout Fishing in America.

But there will be no story about this moment, no photographs. No one except the two of them will ever know. It is the best thing she can do.

It's bad to be unable to stand solitude.

There's nothing that scares me more than, like, being in the ocean by myself.

People love the ocean. People are always asking me why I don't study the ocean, because, after all, I live in Hawaii. I tell them that it's because the ocean is a lonely, empty place.