Quotes about Solitude
Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace. And so he sank into a quiet mood, under the oak tree, the hardness of whose roots, exposed above the ground seemed to him rather comfortable than otherwise.
- Virginia Woolf
I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.
- Laurence Sterne
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.
- Charles Dickens
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
I have sometimes sat alone here of an evening, listening, until I have made the echoes out to be the echoes of all the footsteps that are coming by and by into our lives.
- Charles Dickens
Rarely did that hour of the evening come, rarely did I wake at night, rarely did I look up at the moon, or stars, or watch the falling rain, or hear the wind, but I thought of his solitary figure toiling on, poor pilgrim, and recalled the words: "I'm a-going to seek her, fur and wide. If any hurt should come to me, remember that the last words I left for her was, 'My unchanged love is with my darling child, and I forgive her!
- Charles Dickens
The large rooms are too cramped and close. She cannot endure their restraint, and will walk alone in a neighbouring garden.
- Charles Dickens
Through all my punishments, disgraces, fasts, and vigils, and other penitential performances, I had nursed this assurance; and to my communing so much with it, in a solitary and unprotected way, I in great part refer the fact that I was morally timid and very sensitive.
- Charles Dickens
I date, but the person I date most is myself, unfortunately.
- Gabrielle Union
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
- Marilyn Monroe
In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.
- George Eliot
Wolves travel in packs, but the fiercest travel alone.
- Matshona Dhliwayo