Quotes About Solitude

If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.

you stood still.

We think that if we surround ourselves with people, we can't be alone, when the reality is that we're always alone.

only person I have left in this world is also missing. Gio

Where did the men get the gold So extraordinarily Leaving little of me left And from what men (The men that burn in my heart) I should escape. I am ashamed. If the men turn towards me Where are the rights of my solitude?

It was an intensely lonely moment, like all of eighth grade condensed into one claustrophobic second.

Not appreciating the noise until she was surrounded by silence.

Those dreams that find you in the quiet of yourself, those are the truest of all,

What my parents kept failing to understand was how happy I was when I was alone with my books. There was no pressure to perform or be cute, and books never disappoint — unless, of course, you've chosen a bad one. But then, you can always put it down and pick up another one without any repercussions.

What happened is, we grew lonely living among the things

She didn't mind a little rain. At least no one would see her cry.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

Today I bring you cold chrysanthemums, white as absence, long-stemmed as my grief. I stand before your grave, a few unfallen leaves overhead, the sucking mud beneath.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

I'm lost. I'm alone. I've got nowhere to go. Nowhere but home.

I think, therefore I'm single.

Quiet had a roof and it had walls around it, and you could sit inside it. She had never thought of silence as a place.One of the friends, Tom Williams told her,'the place is in your heart, Louise. Everything else is just clutter.

Memory is the happiness of being alone.

I realised then, sitting silent and alone in the wilderness, that it wasn't just the traffic, noise and pollution of the cities and highways that I'd found wearing, it was also the sensation of being constantly on display, even if the attention I attracted was almost always well-meaning. Iran is a country of, and for, extroverts,

As a beginner, it is most important that you secure your own well-being, guarding your mind in solitude, abandoning distractions and busyness, avoiding unfavorable situations, and subduing the mental afflictions with appropriate antidotes.

Silence is a great peacemaker.

More hearts are breaking in this world of ours Than one would say. In distant villages And solitudes remote, where winds have wafted The barbed seeds of love, or birds of passage Scattered them in their flight, do they take root, And grow in silence, and in silence perish.

The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart.

When I face myself, I go, "You have a fear of really being on your own. So you know what? That's what we're gonna do right now."