Quotes About Solitude

In real life, I am not a lonely person; I have lots of good friends and am active socially. But there are certain aspects of my life when I have felt very alone, utterly alone, and one of them is when I am performing on my own.

I like black because it is a vacant space.

I was so intrigued by insects and things that crawled or flew - I could spend hours by myself in a vacant lot.

A vacation spot out of season always has a very special magic.

He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like.

To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like.

My brother and Lauren are very close with me and they are in Sun Valley, so sometimes I need to go there and feel their presence. And there are times I need to see my bro' alone.

As a kid in Fayetteville, N.C., I played golf all day, every day, a lot of it by myself. I spent hundreds of hours around the greens at Cape Fear Valley, the course my dad owned, hitting every shot I could think of - the one-hop-and-release, the chip that lands dead, the explosion from a bad lie.

My 'aloneness' is extremely valuable to me.

Don't underestimate the value of doing nothing, of just going along, listening to all the thing you can't hear, and not bothering.

But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.

I really value my anonymity and privacy.

Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone.

It made them feel, as all good books do, less alone.

Seekers are also often calm and quiet and have a natural inclination to being alone, and to working on their own. They

If a shred of integrity fell into your soul, it would die a very lonely death.

There is a very good reason why sorcerers are all single. Love and magic are like oil and water—they just don't mix.

Sometimes you feel like the only man in the city without group affiliation.

When the train begins to move they return to their Posts and their private sorrows.

Van bizonyos szakadt méltóság a magányos bukásban.

Stark was accustomed to being alone when things went wrong. For that matter, he was accustomed to being alone when things went right.

She knew enough about him to realize that no one would ever understand him unless he wished it, and that was highly unlikely. He was a man who operated alone, working by his own rules even when he was doing a job for his employers. Emily thought of him in the same way she thought of hurricanes, charging lions and marauding sharks. The only sensible thing to do when any of them was in the vicinity was to get out of the way.

When God created man, He saw that he couldn't survive in that solitude and gave him a shadow. But since then man has never stopped selling it to the devil. I knew him in all conditions. Moist in sacrifice, hostile or welcoming, voracious or retractile, excited or indifferent, impulsive and without qualms, dreamy on his best day. That people who share the same genes should be separated by a moral chasm helps us to reassess the values in the name of which they are killing each other.

It is almost normal to lead a double life when you are alone. It is much more difficult when there are two of you. At last, a genuine madman in the street - someone who doesn't need a mobile phone to talk to himself. Some encounters stay in the memory thanks to the tone of voice, which you remember on an infra-red scale, so to speak, without being able to pin-point it.