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Quotes About Solitude

Sometimes, it's better to be alone to know how your world goes around without the help of anybody else.
~ Unknown
Sometimes you just need to distance yourself from people and their negativity.
~ Unknown
Your life will get better when you realize it's better to be alone than to chase people who really don't care about you.
~ Unknown
Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.
~ Unknown
I had no right to claim him, I knew it. But in a solitary life, there are moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.
~ Madeline Miller
But in solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.
~ Madeline Miller
If I do this thing," he said, "it is the last I will ever do for you. Do not come begging again." "Father," I said, "I never will. I leave this place tomorrow." He would not ask where, he would not even wonder. So many years I had spent as a child sifting his bright features for his thoughts, trying to glimpse among them one that bore my name. But he was a harp with only one string, and the note it played was himself.
~ Madeline Miller
Perhaps it is the greatest grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.
~ Madeline Miller
I always seemed to be in a lull, a strange pocket of emptiness into which no men came, and I was never threatened.
~ Madeline Miller
Their whispers choked me, turned the food in my mouth to ash. I pushed away my plate and sought out corners and spare halls where I might sit undisturbed, except for the occasional passing servant. My narrow world narrowed further: to the cracks in the floor, the carved whorls in the stone walls. They rasped softly as I traced them with my fingertip.
~ Madeline Miller
I was a grey space filled up with nothing but air. What could I say? One of us must grieve. I would not let it be him.
~ Madeline Miller
and I thought of how many nights I had lain awake in this room loving him in silence.
~ Madeline Miller
You threw me to the crows, but i turns out I prefer them to you.
~ Madeline Miller
In a solitary life there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.
~ Madeline Miller
I stared into the darkness, straining to hear past the beat of my own blood.
~ Madeline Miller
That is what exile meant: no one was coming, no one ever would. There was fear in that knowledge,
~ Madeline Miller
kimse taraf?ndan rahats?z edilmeden oturabilece?im kö?eler, bo? koridorlar arad?m. Küçücük dünyam daha da küçülmü?, zemindeki çatlaklara, duvarlardaki sarmal kabartmalara kadar daralm??t?. Parma??m?n ucunu üzerlerinde gezdirirken çatlaklar ve kabartmalar hafif f?s?lt?larla konu?uyordu.
~ Madeline Miller
But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth.
~ Madeline Miller
But in a solitary life, there are rare moment when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.
~ Madeline Miller
perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.
~ Madeline Miller
The world around me narrowed to the pounding of my feet, and the next dusty length of road.
~ Madeline Miller
in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a contellation was he to me.
~ Madeline Miller
I lay on the ground after, breathing with effort. I would be left in peace. Peace. I would have laughed if I were not so ill.
~ Madeline Miller
E dopotutto forse il dolore più grande è quello di chi viene lasciato da solo sulla terra. Non credi?
~ Madeline Miller