Quotes About Solitude

The months and days are the travelers of eternity. The years that come and go are also voyagers…. I too for years past have been stirred by the sight of a solitary cloud drifting with the wind to ceaseless thoughts of roaming.

Along this road goes no one, this autumn eve.

On this road where nobody else travels autumn nightfall.

Chrysanthemum Silence - monk Sips his morning tea.

Lonely stillness— a single cicada's cry sinking into stone

Wintery day, On my horse A frozen shadow.

Old yam digger     please explain            this mountain's sorrows

Violets – how precious on a mountain path.

First winter rain – I plod on, Traveller, my name.

Clouds – a chance to dodge moon-viewing.

Autumn eve – please turn to me. I, too, am stranger.

I felt deeply in my heart both the sorrow of one that goes and grief of one that remains, just as a solitary bird separated from his flock in dark clouds.

Sora and I were separated by the distance of a single night, but it was just the same as being separated by a thousand miles.

Black forest nothing you say matters it snows all morning

Weather-beaten heart the wind must blow right through my body

Clouds come from time to time - and bring to men a chance to rest from looking at the moon.

Loneliness - caged cricket dangling from the wall.

From five to six miles I walk every day In search of you, Cherry blossoms.

On a withered branch A crow has alighted: Nightfall in autumn.

Sure,but that don't mean I've got to go far away.On your own has nothing to do with distance.

I stayed there on the floor like that for a long, long time. Eating and crying. Crying and eating.

The ocean talks to you. Especially at night. Whispering voices that never let up, not even when you sleep.

There are two kinds of people in this world, young fella. Those who can sit in the loneliness of existence and those who turn away.

A new fear began to grip me, almost as powerful as the fear of what could befall us on the mountain: the fear of running out of reading material.