Quotes About Solitude

To a Boy Boy, you are a hidden watering place under the trees where, as the day darkens, gentle beasts with calm eyes appear one after another. Even if the sun drops flaming at the end of the fields where grass stirs greenly and a wind pregnant with coolness and night-dew agitates your leafy bush, it is only a premonition. The tree of solitude that soars with ferocity, crowned with a swirling night, still continues in your dark place. ?Translated from the Japanese by Hiroaki Sato

Honesty and isolation are the only two things you can't take away from a genius.

Loneliness is the price that every leader must pay in the end.

Most of the geniuses have a record of being isolated from the masses—Because great ideas comes only when you're alone. Same as revelation to the prophets.

People rarely believe in ghosts until they are left home alone or when they are feeling lonely within.

Pick up a book on any subject of your desire, sit down in full discipline, then read quietly. Remember, you are never alone. God is within and is always watching.

Single people yearn to see their loved ones, while those who are married crave for time alone.

The day you are born is the day of celebration just as the day you leave should be the day of solitude and great gathering.

The deeply spiritual man can no longer bear all the noise of the public. Thus, avoiding general politics and the immense masses in his service.

The facts are only beneficial for survival in bodily wandering. Apart from that, you are left on your own.

The main wish of the introvert is to avoid friends as well as enemies.

The sun is standing all alone and it is dependent upon itself in almost the same manners as we claim that the Creator is self-dependent.

The world will be such a lonely place whenever I decide to leave it.

There is a hidden beauty in isolation. A leader always stands out from the crowd.

Too much isolation can be a danger to you and your health. It is a hazard to the common people, as well as a benefit to those who know how to use their free time.

We learn better when we are alone, instead of getting involved with large groups of people.

You can practice individualism, minding your own business, at home and when you are alone; not when you are in public or in a group of people.

Philippe liked to daydream with his eyes wide open and I could often tell from looking at the changing intensity of the colours reflected there and the faintest of smiles animating his lips that he was in a world of his own that brought him great comfort in ways I could never understand

I am a man of the ancient earth For I have known the desert at dawn.

The Essence of Belonging: …You persist, And a clean wind measures your persistence. Along a cleavage in space the day becomes, And you conspire in the invention of belonging, Radiant, jealously imagined, estranged from time, And to the crowded habitation of the mind You bring a solitude, a mere and sensual silence In which the essence of belonging belongs.

Her mind is a haunted house.

He would drift through the house in search of the coolest spot to read through the long summer afternoons that had a touch of eternity to them, altering the arrangement of his limbs as much for comfort as for the fear that his undisturbed shadow would leave a stain on the wall.

The desert. No seasons of bloom and decay. Just the endless turn of night and day. Out of time: and she is gazing- not over it, taken into it, for it has no measure of space, features that mark distance from here to there. In a film of haze there is no horizon, the pallor of sand, pink-traced, lilac-luminous with its own colour of faint light, has no demarcation from land to air. Sky-haze is indistinguishable from sand-haze. All drifts together, and there is no onlooker; the desert is eternity.

Friendship's the privilege of private men for wretched greatness knows no blessing so substantial.