Quotes About Solitude

And oft I harked into the night of the Land; but there was nowhere any sound, or disturbing of the aether, to trouble me.

I have one friend, a dog; yes, I would sooner have old Pepper than the rest of Creation together. He, at least understands me-and has sense enough to leave me alone when I am in my dark moods.

The perfect stillness of the night was thrilled by a more solemn silence. The darkness held a presence that was all the more felt because it was not seen. I could not any more have doubted that HE was there than that I was. Indeed, I felt myself to be, if possible, the less real of the two.

Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine.

Often we have tried to segregate ourselves from it all. We have found three refuges: ourselves, our books . . . our friends . . . the lakes and woods around Berlin.

I needed to be alone for whatever would happen. I knew that something would as certainly as if this were a last chapter.

The reading rooms were large and quiet. Their windows were filmed in dust and desiccated insects, and seemed to age the light falling across the communal tables and the volumes in scores of languages.

It is not they who have closed but I. I've cut myself away. I'm alone, and lonely. What frightens me is that I've not become lonely now, but have looked inside and seen that I was, already. How long has that been going on?

I didn't tell the story to ask for help because I knew there was no help.

Do not despair. I know you will not despair. You have a manly and a proud heart. A proud heart can survive a general failure because such a failure does not prick its pride. It is more difficult and more bitter when a man fails alone.

I'd go into the bathroom, pee, close my eyes, and try to find a mental black dot. Then I'd float through that black dot for almost sixty seconds and be in nothing. I'd come out of the bathroom thinking how perfect I felt.

Begitu lah kadang2 bila kita terjun ke jurang kehidupan kita.Tidak ada yang bisa menemani kita,bahkan mereka yang mau mengorbankan hati mereka demi kebahagian kita,juga tidak.

each person is distinct, separate. That ultimately we are each alone

The wind blows through him, cleansing. Salt and distance, smell of the deep.

That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.

Watching them, I feel at once happy and lonely. It's not the loneliness of being without a mate, but something more primal. As though I were the only being left on this side of the glass, while the rest of the world—happy, uncaring—lived out its life on the other side.

I don't know, maybe I just wanted to be alone. Maybe I just didn't want to be social because antisocial people have a whole lot less to lose.

To be in love was to understand how alone one had been before.

Sometimes I feel as lonely as the Queen of England.

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

she'd wanted to do was shut herself away — and think.

Anyone who feels to much or radiates extremity gets very lonely.

Some of the ways we found creativity – the brainstorm, for instance – seemed completely counter-intuitive to where I knew my best ideas came from. These came (and still do come) in the quiet moments on my own, when I wasn't trying, like during long flights, cycling or the shower.

You were not alone. All that time. You were lonely