Quotes About Solitude

I have a repugnance to be known and understood by everybody. I do not like to have my feelings or my thoughts every one's property.

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.

Flies die in so many lonely places. -Roberta Rohbeson

How can you be alone if you are everything? And yet, because you are everything, you are totally alone.

out over the sea," he said. When it

Oh she's alright it's just that - I don't want to get mixed up with anyone in the house. I don't want to get mixed up at all with anybody anymore.

Do not check in with the screaming demands of the world before you exchange whispers with God

In the quiet, we feel safe enough to humble ourselves.

When the soul communes with itself the lip is silent.

Alone! -- that worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

Three things are ever silent--Thought, Destiny, and the Grave.

I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake up in the middle of the night and begin to realise, in the absolute silence and solitude all around them, that it is not only their dream that has woken them, that it is their whole way of life.

chez le pire des minables il existe de ces sentiments, sentiments de fierté intransigeante, qui exigent une réciprocité absolue, et qui préfèrent la douleur d'une solitude amère aux joies d'un succès obtenu par l'humiliante intercession de la raison.

The fascination of trifles obscures the good," says the Wise Man. It is difficult in the midst of much doing and seeing to keep alive and present to the deepest reality, to the really real. And so the monk goes apart…

The worst thing in the world is to be inside yourself, you don't even want to be rescued.

tegeus-Cromis, sometime soldier and sophisticate, who now dwelt quite alone in a tower by the sea and imagined himself a better poet than swordsman.

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

You need the noise of your friends in space.

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare." -Kenko Yoshida

Too many people try to assuage pain that can never be eradicated. All you can do is salute the grief, acknowledge that you carry it, too, and that even though we all travel that path alone, we are not alone in traveling it.

E)very soul requires secret places for contemplation as well as open spaces for celebration.

Freedom is just another word for being alone

Isabeau had a garden insider of her.

I know what I wish. I wish some Day that I might live by a River — one that is strong of current & silent; & above it, in the Pines, the Hawks shall call; & I shall live there in a small House of one Room & play the Violin, & Someone Else shall play the Harpsichord, & we will be far from all Human Habitation. We shall walk by the Banks of that River, & listen to the Buzzing of the Rushes, & that alone shall be our Company.