Quotes About Solitude

If you're willing to love and accept yourself unconditionally, you will allow yourself time to just be. You will set aside times when there's nothing you have to do and nowhere you have to go. You will allow yourself solitude, a nourishing time of aloneness. You will take time for hygiene and exercise. You will take time for fun and entertainment. You will take vacations. You will take time to work at your sex life.

I strongly encourage you to find a place to think and to discipline yourself to pause and use it, because it has the potential to change your life. It can help you to figure out what's really important and what isn't. As writer and Catholic priest Henri J. M. Nouwen observed, "When you are able to create a lonely place in the middle of your actions and concerns, your successes and failures slowly can lose some of their power over you.

When you are able to create a lonely place in the middle of your actions and concerns, your successes and failures slowly can lose some of their power over you.

This is being written abord the S.S. Augustus, three days at sea. My suitcase is full of peanut butter, and I am a fugitive from the suburbs of all large cities.

The image of a cleanly, self-possessed man exploiting his solitude was not easy to come by, but then he had not expected that it would be.

He remembered to the end of his life what he felt at that moment, while the bone of his lower jaw met the bones of his knuckles pressed so hard against them. He felt absolutely alone – alone in an emptiness that was different from empty space. He did not pity himself. He did not hate himself. He just endured himself and waited – waited till whatever it was that enclosed him made some sign.

Wolf Solent was able to indulge in such an orgy of concentrated thought, that these three or four hours lengthened themselves out into something beyond all human measurement.

Just remember that being alone on Valentine's Day is no different than any other day of your life.

I looked in the mirror this morning, but I only saw me without you.

He gave me nothing, and he took it with him when he left.

Listening to country music alone in your car is a guaranteed way to make sure you think about every ex you've ever had. Ever...

What is the opposite of two? A lonely me, a lonely you.

There is one pain, I often feel, which you will never know. It's caused by the absence of you.

The hardest to do is waking up without you.

Fu.. love, fu.. relationships, fu.. ni...s, I just wanna remain single till the day I die.

And if I'm alone in bed, I will go to the window, look up at the sky, and feel certain that loneliness is a lie, because the Universe is there to keep me company.

Sometimes loneliness isn't such a bad end after all, sometimes it brings out the hidden potential in us and make us realize of how far we can go on our own without no ones help.

There is no gem the world that can fill the emptiness in your heart.

Life beyond the crowd may maintain peace in mind, but creates loneliness which kills spirit softly.

Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.

Being single is cool, until nobody is around...

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

When everyone leaves you its loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else its solitude.

All we ask is to be let alone.