Quotes About Solitude

They were surrounded by mountains and forest. There were no nearby houses. The closest neighbor was a half mile away.

Loneliness and fear ate at him, a loner by choice who had prided himself on his daring and courage. The

It is a great strain to have to reassure people that one is perfectly well when all one really wishes is to be left alone to sleep.

But this is the slowed-down season held fast by darkness and if no one comes to keep you company then keep watch over your own solitude. In that stillness, you will learn with your whole body the significance of cold and the night, which is otherwise always eluding you. — Patricia Fargnoli, closing lines to "Winter Grace," Winter (Hobblebush Books, 2013)

I need solitude for my writing; not like a hermit—that wouldn't be enough—but like a dead man.

Humans need each other for equilibrium and support. But writers must pull aside to take a quiet walk alone, not just for the sake of serenity but to hear the Voice inside. That is how the storyteller connects with with others--listen, write, share.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek out writers because we all want to be alone.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

In Moonlight No Soft sweet paw on my cheek No Fur curled under my chin Just A sad space left behind - Gray cat gone away. [Ellie's poem]

My greatest fear is being somewhere without a book.

Dot is lonely. Are you surprised? It's hard to find friends when you're only Dot-sized.

There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. A

Yersin thích tr?t t? và xa hoa, b?i xa hoa ??ng ngh?a v?i t?nh l?ng. ?i?u t? h?i nh?t c?a c?nh nghèo ?ói b?n cùng, là lúc nào c?ng b? qu?y r?y. Không bao gi? ???c ? m?t mình

He was not a scholar – his brain seemed too sluggish or too dreamy to grasp the things demanded of it – but he was never happier than when left alone among books, and would spend hours turning the pages of atlases, novels or tales from history, alive to the alternative versions of himself they seemed to proffer.

At school some learning by heart was compulsory, though not irksome. But this intake was out-distanced many times, as it always is among people who need poetry, by a private anthology, both of those automatically absorbed and of poems consciously chosen and memorized as though one were stocking up for a desert island or for a stretch of solitary.

The notion that I had walked twelve hundred miles since Rotterdam filled me with a legitimate feeling of something achieved. But why should the thought that nobody knew where I was, as though I were in flight from bloodhounds or from worshipping corybants bent on dismemberment, generate such a feeling of triumph? It always did.

Although I'm afraid I don't get too many clients these days!

Isolated people, those who live alone, are always conscious of their condition in the homes of families.

I often wondered how it would be to tramp off into the mountains and keep going until I was exhausted, then simply sink into the snow and fall asleep. Then the wolves could have me. To want to die in the forest and be eaten by wolves: another marker of incipient madness.

Solitude is a terrible thing, for it permits the imagination to picture, in detail, that which perhaps should never be articulated.

I was happy when I walked the streets of Paris by myself.

When he was younger, he used the slightest opportunity to slip away from people, without his being able to understand very clearly why he did so: a longing to break free and to breathe in the fresh air?

Sundays, especially in late afternoon, if you are alone, open a breach in time.