Quotes About Solitude

Stay in harmony. Revel in solitude. Be grateful. Be you. Remember, let your light shine.

You know how it is when two souls meet in a burst of ecstatic volubility, with hearts tickling to hear and to tell, to know everything, to reveal everything, the shared reverence for the other's otherness, a feeling of solitude radiantly snapped by full contact -- all that?

Look at the eyes now -- the eyes of an Old Believer. Part of his mind was away somewhere, dancing with itself.

You know how it is when two souls meet in a burst of ecstatic volubility, with hearts tickling to hear and to tell, to know everything, to reveal everything, the shared reverence for the other's otherness, a feeling of solitude radiantly snapped by full *contact* - all that?

The first thing that distinguishes a writer is that he is most alive when alone.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me

A great relationship ... breaches the barriers of a lofty solitude, subdues its strict law, and throws a bridge from self-being to self-being across the abyss of dread of the universe.

Solitude is the place of purification.

Seldom happier than when I'm on my own, lost in a book.

He was never lonely, not with his books for company. Books never complained, never asked awkward questions.

To think is to confine yourself to a single thought that one day stands still like a star in the world's sky.

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying..

I sit and feel lonely. Sitting and feeling lonely is something I am a spectacular success at. I can do it for hours. Everyone is good at something.

At the same time, she often felt lonely. Books became her refuge. When she was unhappy, she withdrew with her books and shut herself off from the rest of the world. This is what she had already done as a child. With the help of books she could create a world of her own, where she could do as she wanted, and where no one could bother her.

Life was nothing but endless torture. He no longer felt any pleasure watching the sun rise, his every waking moment was sour, ruining the taste of anything that could have brought him enjoyment. As he had never really felt that he was living, he was not afraid of death. He was even happy that, in death, he would find the sole proof that he had been alive.

I don't like being in houses alone.

Our world is so glutted with useless information, images, useless images, sounds, all this sort of thing. It's a cacophony, it's like a madness I think that's been happening in the past twenty-five years. And I think anything that can help a person sit in a room alone and not worry about it is good.

Solitude is the sacred space where wisdom speaks loudest, for in the quiet of our own company, we hear the echoes of our truest selves.

Reality is just this game people play together, something their brain decides on, and the minute their brain gets iffy about reality, they realize everything they know about the world is just their own made-up version of it, and that would mean everyone is walking around in their own made-up world, all alone, and reality is just something we invent together to make us feel not so alone. It scares people when some of us check out of the game.

A woman does not need to live among many people to be content. She needs but one true companion, one soul mate with whom to share this long journey we call life.

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with.

But there is one tree that for the footer of the mountain trails is voiceless; it speaks, no doubt, but it speaks only to the austere mountain heads, to the mindful wind and the watching stars. It speaks as men speak to one another and are not heard by the little ants crawling over their boots. This is the Big Tree, the Sequoia.

In a world filled with people, some happy, others like me, I feel so all alone.

The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.