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Quotes about Solitude

They had become an occasional mutter, like the interior sounds a woman makes when she believes she is alone and unobserved at her work: a sth when she misses the needle's eye; a soft moan when she sees another chip in her one good platter; the low friendly argument with which she greets the hens.
- Toni Morrison
They were troublesome thoughts, but they wouldn't go away. Under the moon, on the ground, alone, with not even the sound of baying dogs to remind him that he was with other people, his self--the cocoon that was personality--gave way. He could barely see his own hand, and couldn't see his feet. He was only his breath, coming slower now, and his thoughts. The rest of him disappeared. So the thoughts came, unobstructed by other people, by things, even by the sight of himself.
- Toni Morrison
It was as though he no longer needed to drink to forget whatever it was he could not remember. Now he could not remember that he had ever forgotten anything. Perhaps that was why for the first time after that old day in France he was beginning to miss the presence of other people. Shadrack had improved enough to feel lonely. If he was lonely before, he didn't know because the noise he kept up, the roaring, the busyness protected him from knowing it.
- Toni Morrison
She had not lived by the sea all those years, listened to the wharfman's songs all that time, to spend her life in the soundless cave of Elihue's mind.
- Toni Morrison
What occurs between the lover and the beloved is the entire fullness of the Godhead. .. the God is born in solitude, from the secret mystery of the individual. The separation between life and love is the contradiction between solitude and togetherness.
- Carl Jung
Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
- George Washington
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than to be crowded on a velvet cushion.
- Henry David Thoreau
We're all in this together ... alone.
- Lily Tomlin
Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.
- Oscar Wilde
You will believe me when I say the life we lead grows less and less distinct from the life we led of Cruso's island. Sometimes I wake up not knowing where I am. The world is full of islands, said Cruso once. His words ring truer every day.
- JM Coetzee
As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk
- Jack Kerouac
The silence was an intense roar.
- Jack Kerouac