Quotes About Solitude

I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude, of being alone with oneself? I feel no such fear. I like being alone." "What do you fear then?" he asked her. She glanced briefly at him and smiled, a fragile expression that spoke for itself even before she found words. "Never finding myself again....

Loneliness. It's a thing, you know, not a feeling. A big, ugly thing that moves in and takes over until you forget how to live without it, but you can't live with it either.

It was true that one could be more alone with someone than by oneself.

Silence was the cure, if only temporarily, silence and geography. But of what was I being cured? I do not know, have never known. I only know the cure. Silence, and no connections except to landscape.

Upon the lonely shore I lie, And gaze along its level sands. Still from the sea steals out the cry I left afar in crowded lands.

Better never to have met you in my dream than to wake and reach for hands that are not there.

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

If the only place that I can see that truly loved special someone is in my dreams then I want to sleep forever.

For whatever the reason being to be without that special someone, your only focus, the one that you truly loved and still love is to alter your life forever. No matter what, there's no getting away from it because 'it' is the person you loved and still love and think of all the time no matter what. It doesn't matter how many new people come into your life the gap will never close for that special someone, the one who was your only focus.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Among men and women, those in love do not always announce themselves with declarations and vows. But they are the ones who weep when you're gone. Who miss you every single night, especially when the sky is so deep and beautiful, and the ground so very cold.

A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night.

Once in a while you have to take a break and visit yourself.

I think, therefore I'm single.

When I was a kid, we had a quicksand box in the backyard. I was an only child...eventually.

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

Maybe love won't let you down. All of your failures are training grounds and just as your back's turned you'll be surprised...as your solitude subsides .

The fact that the man is not alone, that he is solitary to the entire universe even through vanity it means a major thing, it means the true meaning of his existence, that of not being lonely, of being an entire Universe.

The bonds that unite another person to ourselves exist only in our mind. Memory as it grows fainter relaxes them, and notwithstanding the illusion by which we would fain be cheated and with which, out of love, friendship, politeness, deference, duty, we cheat other people, we exist alone. Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.

Go away...I'm alright.

Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.

Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my life.

These soft nights hold me like themselves aloft and I lie without a lover.

Of my friends, I am the only one I have left.