57 Quotes About Solitary

I was free with every road as my home. No limitations and no commitments. But then summer passed and winter came and I fell short for safety. I fell for its spell, slowly humming me to sleep, because I was tired and small, too weak to take or handle those opinions and views, attacking me from every angle. Against my art, against my self, against my very way of living. I collected my thoughts, my few possessions and built isolated walls around my values and character. I protected my own definition of beauty and success like a treasure at the bottom of the sea, for no one saw what I saw, or felt the same as I did, and so I wanted to keep to myself. You hide to protect yourself. Charlotte Eriksson

The years passed like the steps of a staircase leading lower and lower. I did not walk any more in the sun or hear the songs of larks like crystal fountains playing against the sky. No hand enfolded mine in the warm clasp of love. My thoughts were again solitary, disintegrate, disharmonious — the music gone. I lived alone in a few pleasant rooms, feeling my life run out aimlessly with the tedious hours: the life of an old maid ran out of my fingertips. Anna Kavan

I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva’s tower.. I live still a collegiate student..and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi theatrum [sufficient entertainment to myself], sequestered from those tumults and troubles of the world..aulae vanitatem, fori ambitionem, ridere mecum soleo [I laugh to myself at the vanities of the court, the intrigues of public life], I laugh at all. Robert Burton

As change is a constant — as our houses, our money, our friends, our things and even our lovers can always disappear - the one thing that we will always remain the closest to, will be our minds and our bodies. Lauren Klarfeld

It did not occur to me that absence of human companionship does not assure solitude. It may, on the contrary, plunge one into an environment compared with which New York or London would appear deserts. For we take memory and imagination with us. The seabirds that scream overhead or waddle along the margins of the surf; the grotesque forms of twisted cedars; the rustle of sea-grass in the wind; the interminable percussion of the breakers; the dead infinity of the sand itself - there can be no solitude, in the sense of freedom from disturbances of thought, in the presence of such things. They draw us back into the maelstrom. ("Absolute Evil") . Julian Hawthorne

Consciousness is a born hermit. George Santayana

You are alone, So alone, You speak back to silence. People call it loneliness, You call it solitude, Different words, Meaning the same pain. Jenim Dibie

.. . in seclusion, she had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker .. . Charles Dickens

Live alone if staying together seems lifeless Munia Khan

Some wounds; never reflects on the skin, but kills us slowly from inside. Durgesh Satpathy

The art of writing is not as solitary as one might think. When it finally dawns on us one day that our task as writers is to share what we know of the human spirit, we suddenly discover that we were never truly alone. Hal Zina Bennett

Being in home is like magic moments, in a magic world, among magicians. Durgesh Satpathy

Even among familiar faces, people often feel invisible and desolate, like an island in cold waters or a shadow apart from the crowd. Be the reason another never feels alone. Richelle E. Goodrich

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves onto a cyberworld: there’s no end of virtual spaces in which to seek stimulation, but their very endlessness, the perpetual stimulation without satisfaction, becomes imprisoning. Jonathan Franzen

He, who dares seek God's presence, will receive His blessings and favours. Lailah Gifty Akita

Someone carries my belief that raises hope in me, but flame didn’t last for long Durgesh Satpathy

When stupidity reaches its highest level, we act rubbish knowingly Durgesh Satpathy

Are you in love? What makes your heart beat faster? What do you want people to think about when they hear your name. Charlotte Eriksson

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who long to be social and cannot, somehow, step naturally and unselfconsciously into some friendly group Shirley Jackson

The SolitaryAs one who has sailed across an unknown sea, among this rooted folk I am alone;the full days on their tables are their own, to me the distant is reality. A new world reaches to my very eyes, a place perhaps unpeopled as the moon;their slightest feelings they must analyze, and all their words have got the common tune. The things I brought with me from far away, compared with theirs, look strangely not the same:in their great country they were living things, but here they hold their breath, as if for shame. Rainer Maria Rilke

At that time I was only twenty-four years old. My life then was already gloomy, disorderly, and solitary to the point of savagery. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The main thing about aliens is that they are alien. They feel no responsibility for fulfilling any of your expectations. (Dark City Lights) Robert Silverberg

[Sylvia Plath] was now far along a peculiarly solitary road on which not many would risk following her. So it was important for her to know that her messages were coming back clear and strong. Yet not even her determinedly bright self-reliance could disguise the loneliness that came from her almost palpably, like a heat haze. She asked for neither sympathy nor help but, like bereaved widow at a wake, she simply wanted company in her mourning. . Unknown

She never wished for the thing what she is experiencing. It is her inner voice that became her enemy. Durgesh Satpathy

Lonely' is a troubling word and not one to be tossed around lightly. It makes people uncomfortable, summoning up as it does all kinds of harsher adjectives, like 'sad' or 'strange'. I have always been well liked, I think, always well regarded and respected, but having few enemies is not the same as having many friends, and there was no denying that I was, if not 'lonely', more solitary than I'd hoped to be at that time. David Nicholls

You will never feel alone, if you run down the stairs of loneliness; as every solitary step becomes your companion. Munia Khan

She didn't want to go far, just out of the trees so she could see the stars. They always eased her loneliness. She thought of them as beautiful creatures, burning and cold; each solitary, and bleak, and silent like her. Kristin Cashore

Writing is such a solitary occupation that it takes a long time to build up a group of professional peers with whom you genuinely identify. Sara Sheridan

I'm sixteen with what I hope will be a long life ahead, but I'm willing to give it up, to give anything to let her live, to let her make it through the night. Travis Thrasher

Reading and writing are solitary activities that increase a person’s capacity for concentration, awareness, and conceptual thought as the person weaves immediate information with stored memories. Kilroy J. Oldster

Go away. I hate everyone right now, and I'm pretty sure that includes you. Jill Shalvis

The contemplative man always lives alone. Regardless of who may reside in his home, his is a solitary world. Daniel J. Rice

At one point in your life you have to decide whether you want to become a sachem or a solitary. Akilnathan Logeswaran

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement. Peter Straub

She had headed towards town aimlessly, looking for the kind of escape that could be found only in a solitary walk through a crowd. Jade Chang

It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards. Nathanael West

Nobody enjoys the company of others as intensely as someone who usually avoids the company of others. Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Iskari let others define her because she thought she didn't have a choice. Because she thought she was alone and unloved. Kristen Ciccarelli

I would rather be alone than having a solitary company. Pushpa Rana

This world today makes one by the day a recluse Unknown

She disappeared; her voice, her laughter, and the warmth of her breath never seen by no one again. Durgesh Satpathy

She disappeared; her voice, her laughter and the warmth of her breath never seen by no one again. Durgesh Satpathy

A rainy walk through leaves will cure almost anything John J. Geddes

I believe that that love remains strong and intense in your memory because it was your first deep aloneness and the first inner work that you did on your life. Rainer Maria Rilke

I need nothing. I seek nothing. I desire nothing. Milarepa