Quotes about Solitude
It was a small, dim room and the air in it seemed heavy, as if it had not been disturbed for years.
— Ayn Rand
Mr. Roark, we're alone here. Why don't you tell me what you think of me? In any words you wish. No one will hear us." "But I don't think of you." Toohey
— Ayn Rand
I should like to write my books only for the dear person who lies awake reading in bed until page last, then lets the open book fall gently on her face, to touch her smile or drink her tears.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Always we walk each other home. And always we walk some of it alone.
— Barbara Kingsolver
It is in his absence I prosper.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen.
— Barbara Kingsolver
It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister.
— Thomas Merton
I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc.
— David Brainerd
Over, over, there is a soft place in my heart for all that is over, no, for the being over, words have been my only loves, not many.
— Samuel Beckett
Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.
— Joseph Campbell
You and me, we've made a separate peace.
— Ernest Hemingway