Quotes About Solitude

people do that? Can people want to be with someone all the time, okay most of the time, and yet also wish they were alone? And not in little compartments but at once? At the same time? All the time? I want to be alone but I need to not be. I

I admire that a woman can do people like a man. You just get up one day and gone. No drums, no pigeons, no note, no word, no nothing.

Any enjoyment is weakened when shared.

Mass transportation is doomed to failure in North America because a person's car is the only place where he can be alone and think.

I am also struck by how much the poet knew her own mind, both in terms of her need for solitude and what she hoped to achieve in her work.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

I had come to appreciate the reality of solitude and the illusion of community that bars provide.

I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.

My kind of loneliness now has no cure, you know; it is something I expect to live with until I die. Friends are heavenly kind, sometimes fun; it would be fatal not to have them. But I by no means need or want daily contact; perhaps it takes as much out of me as it gives, perhaps takes more.

I took only one suitcase, and a cosmetics case for medicines but I was worried about books. Solitude is all right with books, awful without.

I want to read and write and be very quiet.

Old willows trailed veils of wet leaves across his path. Moss crawled up the headstones. The place was otherwise deserted.

Perhaps he was fit for the life of a hermit. Give up all of his worldly possessions and go live in a hut on a shelf of rock and watch the sunrise every morning. Up before the sun! What a dreadful idea; he shuddered.

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are.

I needed to have an emotion in private.

because privacy blah blah blah

I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are.

I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are.

It would never stop being novel to be around a bunch of humans in a relatively confined space and be able to close a door between me and them and not have to care what they were doing.

Just remember you're not alone here." I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are.

Overse added, "Just remember you're not alone here." I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are.

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat any time and be yourself. —Hermann Hesse

It was dimly lit with very few other people—just about my pace of excitement.