244 quotes found
“Only solitude means never having to say you’re sorry.”
“One of the down-side factors to living alone is that you sometimes get overly absorbed with how exact segments of time are consumed, and can begin to feel a pleasure with life that is hopelessly ti...”
“What's so magical about solitude? In many fields, it's only when you're alone that you can engage in deliberate practice. This is the key to exceptional achievement.”
“A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will.”
“Arcadio had seen her many times working in her parents' small food store but he had never taken a good look at her because she had that rare virtue of never existing completely except at the opport...”
“Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I have attained it.”
“He had to hold his body very still, very still, like some vessel about to slosh over from too much motion. Gradually he managed to get control of his breathing. His excited heart beat more steadily...”
“Everyday brought me further away from other people, I had been placed out of the world's sight, as if in a cupboard, and I hoped it would stay that way. I developed a yearning for being alone, unke...”
“He was a master in the art of spreading boredom and playing the clumsy fool-though never so egregiously that people might enjoy making fun of him or use him as the butt of some crude practical joke...”
“He is at home with his solitude as the note reverberating inside a bell.”
“There are three things a man must do alone. Be born die and testify.”
“Solitary trees if they grow at all grow strong.”
“In the world a man lives in his own age in solitude in all ages.”
“If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die It hath no flatterers.”
“We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins for life.”
“To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field than their own hearts in their closet.”
“Secret and self-contained and solitary as an oyster.”
“Night when words fade and things come alive when the destructive analysis of day is done and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and...”
“In solitude when we are least alone.”
“We enter the world alone we leave it alone.”
