Quotes About Solitude

So many of the blemished didn't know what to do with silence. Sunny'd learned that well enough at the coffee shop, where people insisted on talking, talking. To be "social," they said, but she thought it was because they didn't really know what to do with themselves if they had to listen to what was in their heads instead of what came out from their mouths.

I feel better when I am not around people. When I am alone, alone, alone.

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

You can't fight tribalism with a tribe. All you can do is read and think and listen. And if you're lucky, eventually will come that rousing, fleeting moment when you hear someone say the thing that makes you feel less alone.

But in the outside world, in places (on the rare occasions I visited them) where the vast blankness of the land and sky made even the enormous supermarkets seem tiny, where, to many, words like "Vassar" were just a random sequence of letters, where weather mattered more than most anything else, I often felt lost, irrelevant, fatuous. I

Children exhaust us, even the ones we love most. Our solitude is the most valuable thing we have, and we cherish it above most other things and work hard to maintain it.

Waking Early Sunday Morning," I sat "like a dragon on/time's hoard.

A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise?

A day in which you do goodness far away from the crowds is indeed a very good day!

As if the night has been created for the writers and as if the silence of it is the very inspiration itself!

Bed is a good friend; book is a good friend; night is a good friend. Try to bring them all together.

Bird cage is nice only when it is empty!

Crowds prevent you to see the infinite horizons; get rid of the crowds and open your horizons.

Do not exaggerate to stay lonely! Do not exaggerate to stay in the crowds! Come and go, from one to another! Spend not long time in either of them!

During the late nights, try to walk in the empty streets with an empty mind! Light of wisdom will soon accompany you!

Every calm and quiet place is the true temple of the wise man!

Every man must have a peaceful place to contemplate. If you do not have such a place, you must find one!

Every time I stepped into madness of the crowds, I longed for the wisdom of the loneliness.

Everyday, spend some time in solitude to repair the damages done by the crowds!

Fame is a devil; obscurity is an Angel! Stay away from me, Devil; Come near to me, Angel!

For serenity, always prefer the cottage to the palace!

For the bored souls, sometimes sea is the best answer!

Forest is the best port of the wise man!

Like a wooden cottage of a lovely forest, leave yourself to the silence!