Quotes About Solitude

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

I just wanted peace and quiet. So I waded into the ocean with a bellar in my hand. The waves were cold and kept smacking my clothes, higher and higher, until they knocked my drink out of my hand. Soon, my hair was wet and sticking to the back of my neck. Then I blacked out.

Yes, but Father," he wanted to say from the back seat of a rapidly filling bus, "you never told us how to spend time alone in the midst of half a million people. Here, stars don't shine at night, trees don't speak.

You never told us how to spend time alone in the midst of half a million people. Here, stars don't shine at night, trees don't speak.

Inside our heads there is a space which is completely blank. It holds no memories and has no thoughts. Antoinette wanted to find that place for once there, the world no longer has the power to hurt. She wanted to curl up in the cocoon of her bedding until that time came and never have to face reality again.

Eric Hinkle wasn't alone as he hopped

One can find happiness in a variety of places. It can be in a busy city of many, such as Solas; but it may also be alone, deep in a tranquil forest. It is not always among your kind" -Rovender

The Land of Room Enough, and Time.

This is why I climb, Buchanan thought. To get so far away from Stapp's "surface of the earth" that I can't even hear it. But Whiteside climbs for the thrill of challenging death. And now he's out about thirty yards. It's just too damn risky.

I don't know what will happen to me without you. Only you. Only you love me. Out of everyone in the world.

This is why, Joe, this is why I shouldn't be left alone.

The total isolation of death. The loneliness of the dying man. That is what I had noticed about my father's death. We loved him but, in the end, we left him and he died alone. Because we were tired. Because it was late. Because there was nothing we could do. We loved him and yet he was on his own.

O máis sobranceiro da vida en soidade é que rematas coñecéndote a ti mesmo. Non hai necesidade de tratar de entender a ninguén. Podes dirixir todas as túas cavilacións cara a dentro. Neste momento, e estou ben certo diso, non hai nada no meu interior que me resulte descoñecido. (P. 81)

If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.

I am alone all day, I read a little but it gives me a headache. I draw and I paint, as much as I can, so much so that my hand gets tired and when it begins to get dark I wait to see if Jeanne d'Armagnac [one of the cousins] will come and sit by my bed. She comes sometimes and tries to distract me and play with me, and I listen to her speak without daring to look at her, she is so tall and so beautiful! And I am neither tall nor beautiful.

Med ingen kan man dele sine inderste tanker. Det vigtigste i verden er man alene med.

Jeg vil vente med at vise Viggo F. bogen til i morgen. I aften vil jeg være alene med den, for der er ingen, der virkelig forstår, hvilket mirakel den er for mig.

Der brænder et lys i natten,/det brænder alene for mig/og puster jeg til det, så flammer det op, og flammer alene for mig. –/Men taler du stille, og hvisker du tyst,/er lyset pludselig mere end lyst/og brænder dybt i mit eget bryst,/– alene for dig. –//

I want to be alone to dream about my happiness.

It was simply that she was only fully alive when she devoted herself to her singular ability to draw, and when she drew she was naturally always alone.

One has to discover everything for oneself. And get over it all alone.

One must use the night.

And all you can do is just read," she said. She raised her voice an screamed, "You just read and read and read!" Then she threw herself down on the table and wept.