Quotes About Solitude

The calm and the sorrow were so great that they bore down on his chest, and the loneliness was complete, a circle impenetrable.

He stepped outside and looked up at the stars swimming in schools through the wind-driven clouds.

Una's death struck Samuel like a silent earthquake. He said no brave and reassuring words, he simply sat alone and rocked himself.

A few nights in the open, my lord, a quiet time and peace. Yes, I admit I am glad. It was good, but it is also good to be alone. We need not hurry. At the end is a tomb. Do we need to rush toward it? It will wait.

A light in the daytime is a lonely thing.

I am incomparably, incredibly, overwhelmingly glad to be home. I've never been so goddam lonesome in my life.

A man's bathroom is his castle

Now Kino lay in the cave entrance, his chin braced on his crossed arms, and he watched the blue shadow of the mountain move out across the brushy desert below until it reached the Gulf, and the long twilight of the shadow was over the land.

Nearly everyone has his box of secret pain, shared with no one.

Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. They

They knew that a man so hurt and so perplexed may turn in anger, even on people he loves. They left the men alone to figure and to wonder in the dust. After

It had become his custom, each time he was deserted, to buy a gallon of wine, to stretch out on the comfortably hard bunk and get drunk. Sometimes he cried a little all by himself but it was luxurious stuff and he usually had a wonderful feeling of well-being from it. He would read Rimbaud aloud with a very bad accent, marveling the while at his fluid speech.

Fark bir kiÅŸidedir, tek ba??na bir kiÅŸide... Yegane güç, bir tek sendedir. BaÅŸka hiçbir ÅŸeye güvenemezsin.

Oh, I guess I'm physically able to father a child. That's not what I'm thinking. I'm too closely married to a quiet reading lamp.

It's nice for a mediocre man to know that greatness must be the loneliest state in the world.

Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man. And

During the years he was never sick, except of course for the chronic indigestion which was universal, and still is, with men who live alone, cook for themselves, and eat in solitude.

He's lonelier than you are because he has no lovely future to dream about.

Fella can get so he misses the noise of a saw mill

Well, think about it. Maybe you're playing a part on a great stage with only yourself as audience.

Omul este singurul parazit care-È™i preg?teÈ™te capcana, îi pune momeala, apoi calc? de bun?voie în ea.

Lo valioso siempre está oculto en la mente solitaria de un hombre

The political reality Steinbeck examined in Of Mice and Men, set a "few miles south of Soledad"—Spanish for "solitude"—is the intense loneliness and anger engendered by hopelessness.

kind of warm silence.