Quotes About Solitude

But he was absolutely alone. No one ever wrote to him. Visited him. Totally alone. And I believe the happiest man I have ever met.

her smile was as beautiful as the only star in a dark night...

All the happiness of man stems from one thing only: that he is incapable of staying quietly in his room.

Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.

This is how most stories end in the hospital. Not with crash carts and sirens and electric shocks to the chest, but with an empty room, a crisp white bed, silence.

To heal mine aching moods, Give me God's virgin woods.

Solitude is an essential element for the spiritual health of a child. If we only stimulate our children - keep them busy with endless stories with no space to be alone - that's not good.

I don't need other people. I don't need help. I can take care of me.

I always knew there wasn't going to be anybody to help me and emotionally support me, that whatever I did I'd have to do on my own.

No one can help me with my work. I think I do best when I am just left alone.

By circumstance and perhaps also by inclination, I think in complete intellectual isolation. To expect others to help me think seems to me almost like expecting them to help me digest my food.

Maddie: Now it's just me against the world, and it's the loneliest feeling ever.

Don't depend on anyone too much. Even your shadow leaves when it's dark.

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

I don't know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings

Fischer prefers to enter Chess history alone

One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.

The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.

If I were asked to name the chief benefit of the house, I should say: the house shelters day-dreaming, the house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace.

I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart.

If I'm home alone, I just dance... it's my own little secret.

It's good way to relax when I come home from the road. When you're out there on the tractor there's nobody to bother you.

Going into the woods, is going home