Quotes About Solitude

The quiet times are the ones to hold on to.

Do they sleep? I want to know...am I the only one who doesn't sleep?

The only elixir to pass my lips was solitude." "Be careful you don't drink too much of that. It needs to be balanced by a rich diet of fine company.

it is hard for us to be alone between school and our friends and our families and his track practice and my literary magazine. so this pause is heaven, feeling entirely open

When no one else is around, we open ourselves to the quieter astonishments that enormity can offer.

After all, people are always separable.

I'd like to remain at that one delicate remove, so you can get to know me without the distraction of other people's noise.

The air feels cleaner because when the world is below we allow ourselves to breathe fully. When no one else is around, we open ourselves to the quieter astonishments that enormity can offer.

So I'd like to remain at that one delicate remove, so you can get to know me without the distraction of other people's noise.

Maybe I'm better like this. Maybe I could live my life in my own world, and then simply leave it when it's time to go.

Maybe this is what alone really is—finding out how tiny your world is, and not knowing how to get anywhere else. I

I am reminded how households with only two people have a different kind of gravity than others. We need the background noise, because otherwise the burden is entirely on us.

solipsistic, adj. Go ahead, I thought. Go ahead. Go ahead. I got stuck there. Go ahead. Go ahead. Because I genuinely couldn't see anything after that.

For our afternoon, I've decided to attempt to give Rhiannon the satisfaction of being fully alone. Not the lethargy of lying on the couch or the dull monotony of drifting off in math class. Not the midnight wandering in a sleeping house or the pain of being left in a room after the door has been slammed shut. This alone is not a variation of any of those. This alone is its own being. Feeling the body, but not using it to sidetrack the mind. Moving with purpose, but not in a rush.

Without anyone else around, symmetry can be achieved.

Observar o mundo de cima, e ficar a sós comigo mesmo. Aquilo, descobri, era do que eu precisava.

The point of books was to combat loneliness

I used to go to Bob's Big Boy restaurant just about every day from the mid-seventies until the early eighties. I'd have a milk shake and sit and think. There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milk shake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner.

Perhaps I have not mentioned the tennis courts.

I find an empty page friendlier than speaking to another person.

It has been a good while since 12:00am held much attraction for me beyond being a perfectly lovely time to be ensconced in the comfort of my own home, sitting in my underpants, contentedly worrying about something.

I reached Odell convinced that if I never spoke to another human being for the rest of my life, it would be too soon.

A guy needs a place where he can gaze into the ocean and sort things out." It

Since receiving my last phone bill I have taken to fastening the telephone to its cradle, using some of the threaded packing tape stolen from what used to be my job. In the rare event of an incoming daytime call I can always grab a knife or scissors, but luckily the task appears to be too strenuous during my ever increasing personal mystery hours. Another problem solved with simplicity and grace.