Quotes About Solitude

He was a lonely man, but he had long since reconciled himself to loneliness. Marriage required concessions which he was not prepared to make. He would have had to sacrifice time to small talk and to take an interest in things that bored him stiff. Marriage

Tucker had missed the sheer expanse of sky at night, the tiny cluster of seven sisters, Orion's sword, and the drinking gourd that aimed north. The moon was a gibbous, barely there, as if chewed away. The sky stretched black in every direction. Clouds blocked the stars, lending an unfathomable depth to the air. The tree line was gone and hilltops blended with the black tapestry of night. It was country dark. He closed his eyes, feeling safe.

Sometimes it's good to be alone, because that's when your heart is really open to God.

I talk to myself, especially in the car.

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.

The graveyard shift was his favorite time of night.

Walter was all alone in a huge, empty room with no windows.

In fact, the idea of being locked in a small room seemed kind of comforting. Almost womblike in a strange way.

But this vast empty room was the loneliest, most awful place he had ever been. Its

The water around his legs was the only thing that seemed real.

I felt there was no point in telling anyone anything that was happening inside of me.

One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when I was about 8, I used to enjoy just walking alone through the wood late. Eleven p.m. Midnight. Later.

Weil es so glamourös ist, das Herumstreunen an seltsamen Orten, wo einen absolut keiner kennt.

There are some things best contemplated in silence. Their proportions are so vast that speech cannot get around them.

The reading part of her feels private, between her and the characters in a book.

woman she pays to take care of her, she is as alone as a person can be. She has never tried to

I am the only child in a room full of women and am immediately at ease.

the pain of the constant, bone-chilling loneliness she'd accustomed herself to. And learned to live with it.

the haunted always take refuge in stillness.

The birds have vanished into the sky, And now the last cloud fades away. We sit together, the mountain and I, until only the mountain remains. LI PO

The path to wisdom is to dress up and stay home.

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

One day in the country Is worth a month in town

In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak mid-winter Long ago.