Quotes About Solitude

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.

The world suddenly vanished from view like a morning mist. I was left alone with Reality.

We need these oases of calm in a world of storm. There are times when withdrawal to retreat for such a purpose is not desertion but wisdom, not weakness but strength.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

spills of mire I swallowed inside the tower

The poem is lonely. It is lonely and enroute. — from "The Meridian

You are light: you will sleep through my Spring till it's over. I am lighter: in front of strangers I sing.

BEFORE YOUR LATE FACE, a loner wandering between nights that change me too, something came to stand, which was with us once already, un- touched by thoughts.

Einmal, der Tod hatte Zulauf, verbargst du dich in mir.

The forests have taught man liberty.

The best gift of the desert is God's presence.

solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act alone.

Moved by an unconsious sentiment born out of solitude and savagery - idle tales of a noughty child who sometimes reflects and who is always a lover of the beautiful - the beauty that is personal - the only beauty that is human.

Solitude is a wonderful thing in two ways. First, it allows a man to be with himself, and second, it prevents him being with others.

Mathematician need only peace of mind and occasionally, paper and pencil.

La soledad es algo maravilloso (...), por dos motivos: primero porque le permite a un hombre estar consigo mismo; y segundo porque se libra de estar con los demás.

walked off to his car. He

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.

There is a way of looking at things when you are alone in the woods at night. You see more clearly the things at the corner of the eye, and hear all the little crackling noises, the saw of your own breath, even the thumping of your heart. All so clear. It is as though on stepping out of the city an older part of the brain starts to work again. The part that remembers flint and bone and ice.

go hence without day.

Distance runners are their own breed. Skinny. Self-sufficient. Patient. Able to endure and conquer pain. Often loners

All of us live with our own demons, do penance in our private ways. We need our friends for support and advice, but we draw our strength from within. In the end we are alone.