Quotes About Contemplation

Reading was like eating alone, with that same element of bingeing.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.

Most often, walking alone with my shadow is how I find my answer, the result of gathering together all agreeable parties.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh.

I prize the privilege of being alone.

I don't know myself, what to do, where to go... I lie in the crack of a book for my comfort... it's what the world offers... please leave me alone to dream as I fancy.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

Feeling alone guides the mind.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.

Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.

You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.

I value being able to go into a record shop and people leaving me alone.

There are days when I'm alone with my thoughts, which is to say, not alone enough.

The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.

Being alone is very difficult.

By all means use some time to be alone.

I want to be alone ... I just want to be alone.

I want to be alone with my thought.