“Et moi, je n'ai jamais été aussi démuni, aussi désarmé. Je t'embrasse, mais avec ces larmes que je ne peux pas verser et qui m'étouffent.”
Source: Correspondance
“I was where I craved to be, walking alone in the presence of wild solitude, the treasure of aloneness seeping from the sunlight, from the blue waters, from the patterned stones.”
Source: A Wilder Time: Notes from a Geologist at the Edge of the Greenland Ice
“[Y]ou must not let yourself be diverted out of your solitude by the fact that something in you wants to escape from it.”
“Those of us who crave the expressive but can’t shake off the melancholy walk the street.”
Source: Approaching Eye Level
“There was a reason why Special Forces soldiers hardly ever retired - being retired means losing integration. Losing integration means being alone.”
Source: The Ghost Brigades
“in a society in which power is so abstract that it can no longer be seized, in which the worst threat people feel is solitude and not alienation, conformity to the norm becomes the pleasure of belonging, and the acceptance of powerlessness takes root in the comfort of repetition.”
Source: Noise: The Political Economy of Music
“Some days, I enjoy simply sitting outside on the green grass of this golden fairy garden of mine, under the tender sun, as I listen to the car radio playing indie songs in the background, and see the wind slowly stripping down the trees – I swear I could stay in moments like these for a lifetime, I could lay under the winter sun with nothing but sheer peace inside my heart – a peace I have craved for a long time.”
Source: The Beauty of Every Day
“He loved solitude, for fear that others might find out his sexual abnormality.”
Source: Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Legal Study
“I read, I daydreamed, I wandered the city so ardently in part because it was a means of wandering in my thoughts, and my thoughts were runaways, constantly taking me away in the midst of the conversation, the meal, the class, the work, the play, the dance, the party. They were a place I wanted to be, thinking, musing, analyzing, imagining, hoping, tracing connections, integrating new ideas, but they grabbed me and ran with me from the situations at hand over and over. I disappeared in the middle of conversations, sometimes because I was bored but just as often because someone said something so interesting that my mind chased after the idea they offered and lost track of the rest of what they said. I lived in a long reverie for years, went days without much interruption to it, which was one of the gifts of solitude.”
Source: Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
“It’s okay to find gratitude in solitude.”
Source: Hey Humanity