Solitude Quotes

"I would go down to the river and have a long think."

"I have decided to speak of them only as if I were looking at them from a great distance."

"I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead"

"I was too full of thinking"

"It was awful dark and solemn and lonesome"

"I realized how easy it was for me to hide from the world."

"The stars were my companions."

"The loneliness is hard."

"I felt so lonesome I most died."

"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition."

"Sometimes I lifted my head and listened over the water."

"This is a lonely business we're in."

"I was never lonely except in the beginning."

"Solitude is where one finds oneself."

"I want to be left alone, on the boat, with my margarita."

"I'm so cold, so alone."

"The night is my time out. Where should I go?"

"I don't want to be here, in my head, alone."

"Nobody ever goes to that island."

"I didn't want to talk much."

"The nights are the worst because then I'm alone."

"The clock ticked on endlessly, and I sat listening to the darkness."

"I am like that, Mariam thought. Like a compass needle. Except I have no place to point to."

"She thought of her life in the hut, how she had lived on the margins of the world."

"Solitude teaches self-knowledge."

"Perhaps I like the invisibility."

"It's when I'm trapped that I can think."

"The night is mine, my own time"

"I couldn't explain myself, even to myself."

"I am a ghost in this house."