Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

I can’t help you, I can only guide you, and you are the one who can help yourself.

People say they are alone. But to whom do they say that? (Les gens disent qu’ils sont seuls. – Mais à qui le disent-ils?)

Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery...

My name it means nothingmy fortune is lessMy future is shrouded in dark wildernessSunshine is far away, clouds linger onEverything I posessed – Now they are goneOh where can I go to and what can...

True happiness is impossible without solitude. The fallen angel probably betrayed God because he longed for solitude, which angels do not know.

I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of them out there doing their pitiful little tricks and handsprings.

Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day...

Was I being groomed for some special mission? What possible purpose could an existence like mine serve? When I wasn’t drinking in crappy bars, I was home by myself reading: a life that was achingly...

A pine tree standeth lonelyIn the North on an upland bare;It standeth whitely shroudedWith snow, and sleepeth there.It dreameth of a Palm treeWhich far in the East alone,In the mournful silence standethOn its ridge of...

Your own space, man, it’s so important. That’s why we were doomed because we didn’t have any. It is like monkeys in a zoo. They die. You know, everything needs to be left alone.

How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said.I don’t guess you would know it. You’d just be it.

There is no greater isolation a man may experience than to be lonely in a crowd.

My fear of loneliness is like a disease.

We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one orbit to another. On rare occasions there is total collision, but most often...

Se nu er jeg borte fra byens larm ogtrængsel og aviser og mennesker, jeg erflygtet fra det altsammen fordi det igjenkaldte på mig fra landet og ensomhetenhvor jeg er fra. Du skal se det kommertil...

I would have stayed a hundred times and I would have left one time only – still, I left.

You will never feel alone, if you run down the stairs of loneliness; as every solitary step becomes your companion.

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

At the foundation of the Christian life, there is a kind of sacred individuality, a sort of holy aloneness that cries out to be left alone with God. This isn’t all of the Christian life....

I wished a companion to lie near me in the starlight, silent and not moving, but ever within touch. For there is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude...

He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!

We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.

Being a lone wolf is sometimes better than being in a pack

Divide the constant tide and random noisiness of energetic flow, with conscious recurring moments of empty mind, solitude, gratitude and deep…slow…breathing. Of this, the natural law of self-preservation demands.

..i spill intothe kind of silenceonly Khalil Gibran would understand.

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

Da ich nun einmal nicht imstande war, die Menschen vernünftiger zu machen, war ich lieber fern von ihnen glücklich.

Saya kesepian, Tuhan. Tidakkah Engkau kasihan pada saya? Saya hanya ingin mempunyai teman. Cukup satu saja. Yang bisa saya ajak bicara, bercanda, dan bercengkrama. Yang selalu ada di kala sedih dan bahagia. Sekali lagi, kabulkan...

One of the three pigeons flew on the same bark just before the second pigeon had flown on it ; and I observed the third lagging just the opposite direction !

The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews...

So I lived alone. The first thing I did was take off my pants. Naturally.

Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others.

Personne n’entend ceux qui disent vouloir être seuls. La volonté de solitude, c’est forcément une pulsion morbide.

It is this nothingness (in solitude) that I have to face in my solitude, a nothingness so dreadful that everything in me wants to run to my friends, my work, and my distractions so that...

Souls are like stars. There are thousands upon thousands around us yet we only see a few hundred. We know the names of only a handful of them even though we see them every day....

The evening I went for a walk. To walk for the sake of walking is something I seldom do.Inside my apartment I’d felt inexplicably anxious. I needed to talk to someone, to be reassured. Or...

I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally alone. All alone...

Sitting on the porch alone, listening to them fixing supper, he felt again the indignation he had felt before, the sense of loss and the aloneness, the utter defenselessness that was each man’s lot, sealed...

The wise oyster stays in its shell.

It’s not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it’s your friends

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people...

Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.

To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!

All that is important comes in quietness and waiting.

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all.

And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.

So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the blue-silver of the cold moon, shining brilliantly on the drifts...

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

Poems can getsleepless tooand becomethe loneliest thingin the universe.