Quotes About Solitude

I do not wish to shine. I prefer shadows, quiet, periods of solitude. I do not wish to be noticed. If one is all but invisible to others, one cannot be envied, inspire anger or suspicion. Near invisibility is a way of life that I recommend.

I think to myself, I play to myself, and nobody knows what I say to myself.

Being alone can be good. It is easy to find peace alone. But sometimes...being alone is a kind of death.

the single-story house

Only now does he realize that the worst of all miseries to afflict the human heart is loneliness.

No helicopters are aloft. If boats ply the lake, they do so without running lights.

she halts, gripped by the intuitive perception that her island has changed.

Now comes the evening of the mind. Here are the fireflies twitching in the blood. —Donald Justice, "The Evening of the Mind

The island is Ringrock

This is just another day in April, a Tuesday defined by isolation and hard-won serenity

Darkness was conducive to contemplation.

In her countless long walks over these one hundred and thirty acres

Isolation is a wall against fear and despair. Only nature, quiet, and time for reflection can heal her. If she can be healed.

never come across a footprint other than one of her own.

house was of

the worst of all miseries to afflict the human heart is loneliness.

She has no family in the outside world. They are all dead.

by woods beyond the yard.

That and loneliness.

Having found peace in isolation, she won't put it at risk.

the only companion with which he felt comfortable was sorrow.

Here, in the quiet hours after midnight. Like sitting on a beach. The night rolls and breaks and tosses up our losses like bits of wreckage, all that's left of one ship or another.

A novena to the darkness

Joe never married, and he lived alone all his life. He had no need of four chairs, and yet he built the extra three, perhaps as an expression of hope.