Solitude Quotes
To be alone was my best interest because needing myself was looking for you
It's the solitude that slays you. Maybe because you'd expected ruin to arrive in a grander and more romantic form.
I am so tired. I have grown old from being serious. I have grown ill from being serious. I want to laugh at myself. I want to forget myself. I am so tired.
How can you make an informed decision about whether to save the world if you never leave your tiny part of it?
You are the richest person if you own the treasures of both the solitude and the togetherness!
Unerring solitude forces a person to confront their morality and aloneness. Solitude makes personal confession possible.
The psyche of some people, whether through innate structure or via adaption to personal experiences, is uniquely adept for absolute aloneness.
There was no one to complain to in the woods, so I did not complain, ' Knight said.
Thomas Merton, the Trappist monk, wrote that nothing can be expressed about solitude "that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
The American essayist William Deresiewicz wrote that "no real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.
A person realizes inner calm and a state of rapturous peacefulness with nature whenever they stand in solitude and contemplate their existence in an infinite world filled with multiple galaxies.
She had headed towards town aimlessly, looking for the kind of escape that could be found only in a solitary walk through a crowd.
When you want to be alone, even few people around you will seem like a tremendous crowd to you!
Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude, where is he? What is he?
If people never learned the truth about him, then they couldn't turn around and use it against him. The lie was a way of buying protection.
I begin to be impatient of solitude - to feel its draperies hang sweltering, unwholesome about me.
From our solitudewe shall create, forge songs, pour in the reflectionof the stars and refresh the mindabout the silk-ridden roads that wait for them who have forgotten to feel.
In a lot of ways, living with Charlie was like having my own place, and I found myself reveling in the aloneness instead of being lonely.
I used up most of my passions and energies during the years I've mentioned, and though I don't talk much about it, the chief thing I've asked from the world since then is to leave me alone.
Clara looked at Maria and tried to understand what she must do so that Maria would be able to see her. But the little French girl cast all around her the bronze of infinite solitude.
I hate the very noise of troublous man Who did and does me all the harm he can. Free from the world I would a prisoner be And my own shadow all my company.
I descended into solitude so thick that conversations with repairmen became anxious social occasions.
I told her it takesa lot of solitude to write a poem.She told me it takes a lot of solitudeto die.
People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.
This is a new nonnegotiable: to feel safe, you have to be connected.
Increasingly, people feel as though they must have a reason for taking time alone, a reason not to be available.
The acquisition of culture requires repose, sitting quietly in a room with a book, or alone with one's thoughts even any crowded concert or art museum.
Death and birth are solitary experiences. We are born alone and we die alone. When we are expelled from the maternal womb, we begin the painful struggle that finally ends in death.
For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be satisfied with offering no more than his surface to others.