Quotes About Solitude

When we walk in the sun our shadows are like barges of silence.

What we desire, more than a season or weather, is the comfort Of being strangers, at least to ourselves.

It was one of the other things his father had told him about surviving the gulag. The worse it was, the less you thought. You had to figure out a way to go down inside yourself, find a place no one could get to, and just be. Like a bear hibernating.

Be good and you will be lonely.

It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a little kind of a low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

If you are not careful, you can end up with many friends to do stuff with and to enjoy stuff with, but when it comes to sharing in the most intimate ways, is there anyone there?

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will let you alone.

When there is an old maid in the house, a watchdog is unnecessary.

What is that mountain goat doing way up here in the clouds?

Writing is a funny business. You sit in your room and listen to voices and write everything down. What kind of a profession is that?

Welcome to my garage. This is where I go to get away from the Honey-Do list.

And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out.

I first had a version of this at a Japanese monastery during a silent retreat-don't ask, it's a long story.

My one light American Spirit that I smoke once a week, on Saturday night.

I'm not trying to be ridiculous or funny, but it was rather pleasant to find yourself in isolation, in solitary.

It was funny, she thought, but her smile turned wistful because she had nobody to tell.

I always get the better when I argue alone.

I live at the end of a dead end one way street. I don't know how I got there.

All I have is me, myself and I and we are all getting really tired of each other.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.