Quotes about Solitude

When grief is deepest, words are fewest.

What a joy to know where one is, and where one will stay, without being there. Nothing to do but stretch out comfortably on the rack, in the blissful knowledge you are nobody for all eternity. A pity I should have to give tongue at the same time, it prevents it from bleeding in peace, licking the lips.

I think sometimes if you are alone, you are freer because your time is your own.

If you want to know anything about community, you have to realize that the contemplative side is essential. Community without retreating and quiet time never survives.

Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!

This was a very typical time. I was single. All you needed was a cup of tea, a light, and your stereo, you know, and that's what I had.

He wanted to close his eyes and shut out the pearly nothingness that surrounded him, but that was an act of a coward and he would not yield to it.

Please leave me alone; let me go on to the stars.

I had no friends who would call upon me and break the monotony of my daily existence.

My sorrow is my castle.

The present state of the world and the whole of life is diseased. If I were a doctor and were asked for my advice, I should reply, 'Create silence'.

I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone.