Quotes About Solitude

By definition, the monastic way was designed precisely to allow creatures of the earth to rise toward a purer spirituality.

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

Slipped beneath the minnow Pea front door] Nollopton Monty No-way 6 Insane woman named Ella: Retreat is what we want. Go away. Let we alone. Anonymess

He ran west, away from the rising sun. The wet sand glistened in the morning light and felt spongy beneath his shoes. The tide was out, and the beach sat wide, filled with a fresh assortment of seashells and sand crabs scurrying sideways and jellyfish stranded out of water. Seagulls picked over dead fish, and a pelican stood witness. The wind was down, the sea smooth, and the waves low swells instead of whitecaps. The air was fresh, and the beach was his.

shakes alone." Nick

and I went into the garden and lay down and looked at the stars in the sky and made myself negligible.

Give me a night by the fire, with a book in my hand, not that flickering rectangular son of a bitch that sits screaming in every living room in the land.

Time in prison—not just in solitary—becomes "a thick dull mallet that pounds consciousness into a coma.

U.S. death rows, still displaying over 3,000 persons, are similarly sites of torture. After a person is sentenced to death, he or she is held in situations approximating solitary confinement, sometimes for decades, under prolonged and anguishing anticipation of the state's calculation of an execution date. Judges

Solitude is different from loneliness. Solitude is rich, inspiring, and restful; replete with space and possibility. Loneliness is empty, pathetic, and enervating; bereft of power and potential. Lonely people expect others to fill their inner void, whereas lovers of solitude—which is what I invite you to become on this journey—recognize that time alone is precious, a refuge where you can practice meeting yourself in the mirror of the blank page.

Solitude and loneliness are two separate things. One you choose out of wisdom, the other out of necessity." -Mark Miller

I like the mountains because they make me feel small,' Jeff says. 'They help me sort out what's important in life.

Not having the company of books made me feel even more isolated.

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.

On the long run, there is an experience of freedom, of a certain sort — the freedom of spending time with the mind.

The irony of writing is that it's a solitary profession in which the lone writer tries to address universal human concerns.

I was a kite miles out to sea. I was soaring without a string.

There's a perverse and bitter joy in feeling unique, but you pay dearly. Morrissey

Yes, we are all alone in this world. At least, when it comes right down to it. We are by ourselves, even when we're with others. All our thoughts are ours, alone.

So many silent battles are waged By those who sit alone and wait, and by those who delay.

The Hill I have come this far on my own legs, missing the bus, missing taxis, climbing always. One foot in front of the other, that is the way I do it. It does not bother me, the way the hill goes on. Grass beside the road, a tree rattling its black leaves. So what? The longer I walk, the farther I am from everything. One foot in front of the other. The hours pass. One foot in front of the other. The years pass. The colors of arrival fade. That is the way I do it.

En un campo yo soy la ausencia del campo

I walk into what light there is — Mark Strand, from "Another Place," Collected Poems (Knopf Doubleday, 2014)

In a field, I am the absence of field.