Quotes About Solitude

All I want to do is sit down for ten minutes and not worry about a single, damn, thing!

A divorcée empty nester who didn't regret her solitude? She was a goddamn unicorn of selfishness.

Last Week Dara had asked Claire to bring him a houseplant. She'd come back with a tiny little pothos vine in a ceramic pot. Dara had positioned it near the window, and he was embarrassed to admit he'd taken to talking with the plant, one-sided conversations to fill the empty hours.

Life is a windowless room in the Hotel Bellevue.

The only problem with not talking to oneself was that oneself was the most fascinating conversational partner one could imagine. Nobody had more patience in listening to one than oneself, and while nobody knew one better than oneself, nobody misunderstood one more than oneself.

I was finally left with nothing but myself and my thoughts, devious cabdrivers that took me where I did not want to go.

For her, he swallowed the black tea of exile.

By now the only part of me now seating were my eyeballs.

But after the bottle was empty sometime that night, I was finally left with nothing but myself and my thoughts, devious cabdrivers that took me where I did not want to go. Now

As with the Westerner, the Easterner was never so bored as he was when on his own shores.

But after the bottle was empty sometime that night, I was finally left with nothing but myself and my thoughts, devious cabdrivers that took me where I did not want to go.

If you daren't enter the forest, or cannot find it, then perhaps you might find one tree, or a place where a tree could be, and just stop for a quiet moment to see what happens.

He has asked himself sometimes if solitude is preferable to boredom or betrayal, which seemed to be the inevitable end of all happy love affairs, of all happy marriages. People clung to one another out of fear. K.D. has preferred the integrity of being alone. He was a realist, he is. He has the strength to face death alone.

I have learned to follow another voice, to be alone and to understand things - maybe to be alone and to be misunderstood.

Man without life companion is either god or beast.

And the process of reading is such a private one. I once came into a room where a friend of mine was reading one of my books, and he clicked his tongue impatiently and shooed me off.

Always take quite time for yourself, or you will be useless for anyone else.

Being alone by oneself is much better than being alone with another.

Books are for only those who can live without television.

Even if you are in paradise, it is still hell if you are all alone.

Even when you are alone, always try to be in good company.

Hang out with wise people and you will realize that there is nothing better for man than silence.

Loneliness is worse but the worst kind of loneliness is when you are in a crowd of people.

Solitude is the nest of thoughts.