The fog was where I wanted to be. Halfway down the path you can’t see this house. You’d never know it was here. Or any of the other places down the avenue. I couldn’t see but a few feet ahead. I didn’t meet a soul. Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That’s what I wanted—to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself. Out beyond the harbor, where the road runs along the beach, I even lost the feeling of being on land. The fog and the sea seemed part of each other. It was like walking on the bottom of the sea. As if I had drowned long ago. As if I was the ghost belonging to the fog, and the fog was the ghost of the sea. It felt damned peaceful to be nothing more than a ghost within a ghost.
Eugene O'NeillLittle as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.
Edith WhartonTags: solitude quote the-house-of-mirth
However, the serious seeker of detachment will have to embrace the Holy Trinity of Ss - Solitude, Stillness and Silence - and reject the new religion of Commotionism, which believes that the meaning of life is constant company, movement and noise.
Michael FoleyTags: solitude detachment commotion
If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.
Criss JamiTags: wisdom truth strength einstein solitude loneliness genius alone foolish perseverance theory fools wise discovery symbolism true lonely albert-einstein hypothesis wolf representation planet solitary symbol loners wise-man lone lone-wolf represent
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.
Thomas MannTags: beauty solitude absurd perverse
But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.
Virginia WoolfTags: solitude
Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise blots out the sounds and silences of the outdoor world; and talking leads almost inevitably to smoking, and then farewell to nature as far as one of our senses is concerned. The only friend to walk with is one who so exactly shares your taste for each mood of the countryside that a glance, a halt, or at most a nudge, is enough to assure us that the pleasure is shared.
C.S. LewisTags: nature solitude silence appreciation walking talking enjoyment senses
... relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space, demanded so much time. It was exhausting.
Catherynne M. ValenteTags: solitude relationships relationship other-people
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
Criss JamiTags: fear solitude loneliness alone companionship introversion shyness extroversion
Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison to you.
Friedrich NietzscheTags: solitude
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