Quotes About Solitude

We're all aloneNo chaperonCan get our number,The world's in slumber,Let's misbehave.

Sometimes your best company is you

Solitude is a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never a saint took pity on My soul in agony.

Solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom.

There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

I have no equals, I have only my fellow wayfarers.

Pureté et solitude sont un seul et même malheur.

Today, I dressed my wound, and nursed my hurt in a sheltered place.

There is no premature death for a man utterly dedicated to conquest, solitude and vain flight: he is always at an age to die

I'm past thinking,' said Sarah quietly.

The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.

Solitude, the very condition which sustained the individual against and beyond his society, has become technically impossible.

She comes not when noon is on the roses - Too bright is day. She comes not to the soul till it reposes From work and play. But when night is on the hills, and the great voices Roll in from sea, By starlight and by candlelight and dreamlight She comes to me.

Oh! To live alone, always alone, in the midst of the crowd that surrounds me, without a word of love ever coming to gladden my soul, without a friendly hand reaching out to me!

Ilse zegt: 'Maar ik dacht dat je... Dat je - hoe heet het - vrij was. Dat je -' 'Dat ben ik ook. In overdrachtelijke zin. Er is een oud...' Ik zie de Japanners opstaan en weggaan - 'Een oud Japans spreekwoord dat zegt: Vrij hoef je niet alleen te zijn als je alleen bent. Het is dan ook in die zin dat ik het begrip 'vrijheid' koester.

Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries—stand that man upon his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region…. Meditation and water are wedded forever.

No voice, no low, no howl is heard; the chief sound of life here is a hiss.

The wonderful thing about being isolated is that, whatever you do, you're right. And if you're not, then neither are you wrong, because there's no bigmouth around to throw it up to you.

Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.

Our generation is witness to a development of physical knowledge such as has not been seen since the days of Kepler, Galileo and Newton, and mathematics has scarcely ever experienced such a stormy epoch. Mathematical thought removes the spirit from its worldly haunts to solitude and renounces the unveiling of the secrets of Nature. But as recompense, mathematics is less bound to the course of worldly events than physics.

Alone, she read herself into the "middle of a world", like "shutting the doors of a Cathedral". She took long solitary walks, in all weathers, talking to herself and reciting, "very lively in my head..

Håkan realized now that he had always thought that these vast territories were empty—that he had believed they were inhabited only during the short period of time during which travelers were passing through them, and that, like the ocean in the wake of a ship, solitude closed up after the riders.

After thousands of nights under those same stars, he woke up as many thousands of mornings under that same sun and trudged for as many thousands of days under the same sky, always feeling out of place.