Quotes about Solitude

The time when you should most of all withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something undefined and mysterious, which was reflected in the faces of the flowers and the movements of birds and animals, in the sunlight falling through the leaves and in the sound of running water, in the wind blowing on the hills and the wide expanse of earth and sky.

Even Vacancy was crowded with her.

I don't miss doing things with her. I miss doing nothing with her.

In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude.

What a blessing it is to be alone with your thoughts when so many are alone with their inability to think.

If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders.

Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I like to be alone now and then, just to think over things and taste them. But I love friendships — and nice, jolly little times with people.

She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she seemed to have been transplanted with a suddenness and completeness that left her half bewildered to her own identity.

No. I don't think I've ever been really lonely in my life," answered Anne. "Even when I'm alone I have real good company — dreams and imaginations and pretendings. I LIKE to be alone now and then, just to think over things and TASTE them.

Night is beautiful when you are happy—comforting when you are in grief—terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.