Quotes About Solitude

A library is but the soul's burial-ground. It is the land of shadows.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

How utterly unprofitable my life is! These continual searchings of my mind are leading me into the desert.

The shots had dispersed the birds; there remained only two marabous, standing between ten and twenty paces away and plunged in reverie. They were like two old men with bald heads pressed between the shoulders.

There was only one who understood me, and he understood me wrongly." Miss

without noise of drums or

Pierre looked into the sky, into the depths of the retreating, twinkling stars. "And all this is mine, and all this is in me, and all this is me!" thought Pierre. "And all this they've caught and put in a shed and boarded it up!

Rostov was not listening to the soldier. He looked at the snowflakes dancing above the fire and remembered the Russian winter with a warm, bright house, a fluffy fur coat, swift sleighs, a healthy body, and all the love and care of a family. "And why did I come here?" he wondered.

Book is a nice companion

Thus, in spite of his solitude, or in consequence of his solitude, his life was exceedingly full.

I felt that my whole life was bound to go on in the same solitude and helpless dreariness, from which I myself had no strength and even no wish to escape.

It is in the mountains that the eagles dwell

Great common truths are disclosed to man only when he is alone: they are the revelation made by solitude in the thick of collective action.

He suffered ever the same unceasing agonies and in his loneliness pondered always on the same insoluble question: "What is this? Can it be that it is Death?" And the inner voice answered: Yes, it is Death. "Why these sufferings?" And the voice answered, For no reason—they just are so.

in spite of his solitude, or in consequence of his solitude, his life was exceedingly full.

We often believe that our life moves forward only when we meet others. This is not true. Our real lives unfold when we are alone, when we are one-on-one with our thoughts. A thought is a great force. This force finds its way out of a person through words, making one's deeds a blessing or a curse, depending on whether it was a good or bad thought. It

I humbly beg you to leave me in peace. That's the only favor I ask of my gracious brothers.—Nikolai Levin.

La verdadera religion no necesita de templos, ni de iconos, ni de salmos, ni de reuniones multidinarias. Al contrario, la verdadera religion entra en el corazón únicamente en el silencio y la soledad

Para no perderse entre el tumulto de un desierto estéril, el alma fuerte se encierra en sí misma

La soledad es para el alma la magnífica ocasión de conocerse, de vigilarse, de formarse a sí misma

En lugar de quejarnos de la soledad, bendigámosla, aprovechemos la posibilidad inesperada que nos da para examinarnos en silencio, para dominarnos lucidamente y totalmente, hasta en nuestros más contradictorios pensamientos

En medio del vasto rebaño humano, el hombre excepcional siempre se siente solo

I have my best ideas when I am alone.

Going nowhere … isn't about turning your back on the world; it's about stepping away now and then so that you can see the world more clearly and love it more deeply.