Quotes About Solitude

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

Then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink

Absence is the enemy of love

And she finally stopped playing their song, when she realized she was dancing alone.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

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.

Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horse pond.

The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence.

You know, I'll be loving you still. The nights are lonely, the days are so sad and I just keep thinking about the love that we had. And I'm missing you and nobody knows it but me.

Missing someone doesn't always mean you need to have them back in your life. Sometimes you just feel there absence in present.

The only difference between missing someone and loneliness is the words themselves.

Sometimes you miss someone so much that you forget you are better without them.

Thank God for memories, because sometimes it seems they're the only place I can find the ONE person I really want to see, hear, and hold.

I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone, but though you're still with me, I've been alone all along.

I don't miss the relationship, I miss the companionship.

Here I am reading quotes with only one person on my mind the whole time.

A house is not a Home, when your loved one is gone...

He looked so lost, so soulful, so lonely. I wanted him to kiss me now. I wanted to let him know I was his for all eternity.

I'm single but my heart is taken.

A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

To keep from crying in front of everyone, I ran down the hall, opened the first door I saw, and dashed inside. Too late I realized the room was already occupied. An old man in a wheelchair sat beside a window. Of all the places I might have gone, I'd chosen Great-grandfather's sanctuary.