Quotes About Solitude

A wrong relationship will make you feel more alone than when you were single.

No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.

Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

Perhaps only those people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the world.

It's just the meaning of being alone

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

I have friends who I get along with who I know get very uncomfortable being alone, unless they're with people, talking all the time. Whether it's on the phone, or in person, they're never by themselves. Whereas I could be alone for months

Language... has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

There is something about the presence of a cat...that seems to take the bite out of being alone.

Being alone is scarier than any boogey man and the reason why I don't choose to see Horror movies as a rule.

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

I like being on my own. Relationships are messy & people's feelings get hurt.

Sometimes, its ok to be single and just go and hang out with people. Yet, it sometimes stinks when you have no one to be with to talk to at night, hold hands, and be happy. You just have to have patience, and wait to see what happens.

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

Summer: Sitting at home alone all day realizing how many friends you don't have.

A day alone, only that would be death.

The thought of death sits easy on the man Who has been born and dies among the mountains.

There is a solitude of space. A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity.

I went down to the river, I set down on the bank.I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.

...and when we die we die alone I cry, I cry aloneLike a piece of stone I am thrown into the wavy ocean of lifeto atone...to atoneOnly to atone...

The ticking of the clock has gotten so loud." - 74

My heart has joined the Thousand, for my friend stopped running today.

She already felt dead in everything but name. What remained to be taken from her? She longed to be enfolded, welcomed, into the earth - to breathe no more, love no more, hurt no more