Quotes About Solitude

The best conversations are with yourself. At least there's no risk of a misunderstanding.

She's a loner, she doesn't care about being around people. So neither failure nor success concerns her.

perhaps solitude has stretched out his thoughts into long strands, and accustomed him to internal dialogues.

For the best conversations are with yourself. At least there's no risk of a misunderstanding.

Anyone who has ever tried to write a novel knows what an arduous task it is, undoubtedly one of the worst ways of occupying oneself. You have to remain within yourself all the time, in solitary confinement. It's a controlled psychosis, an obsessive paranoia manacled to work, completely lacking in the feather pens and bustles and Venetian masks we would ordinarily associate with it, clothed instead in a butcher's apron and rubber boots, eviscerating knife in hand.

Izydor couldn't care less about either the Party or going to church. Now he needed time for thinking, remembering Ruta, for reading, for learning German, for writing letters, collecting stamps, staring at his skylight, and gradually, idly sensing the order of the universe.

People shouldn't be allowed to live so far away," he said at the front door. "What do you gain by hiding away from the world like this? It'll catch up with you anyway.

Whenever I set off on any sort of journey I fall off the radar. No one knows where I am. At the point I departed from? Or at the point I'm headed to? Can there be an in-between?

The island state is a state of remaining within one's own boundaries, undisturbed by any external influence; it resembles a kind of narcissism or even autism.

Whenever I set off on any sort of journey I fall off the radar. No one knows where I am.

I will get a cat and a parrot and live alone in single blessedness.

She passed through her childhood blindfolded, picking her way cautiously along, sensitive fingertips stretched out before her to avoid sharp corners and unyielding walls, clinging close to the protection of solitude and isolation.

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.

Nos olvidamos, a veces, de nuestra sombra o es que nuestra sombra nos abandona de vez en cuando?

I love that quiet time when nobody's up yet and the animals are all happy to see me!

La vita del fotografo viaggiatore è una vita da solitario radicato nell'incertezza che esige una totale dedizione.

And what's more I've got no need for anyone to tell me how to do it. I am not interested. You act how you want to and leave me alone to do my own thing.

Il n'est pire exil que celui du coeur

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

A Book of Verses undeneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness- Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow

What is it about this twilight hour? Even the sound of a barely perceptible breeze pierces the heart.

Though we knew each other without overlapping our clothes, still, with this autumn wind's sound, I find myself waiting for you.

Undisturbed, my garden fills with summer growth— how I wish for one who would push the deep grass aside.

I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.