Mental Solitude Quotes

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.

I've always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I'm in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I'm alone in my head.

Nothing impresses me any more, save and except my own deep meditations.

Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.

The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.

Staying within the world of a novel gives us the ability to be quiet and alone, two skills that are disappearing faster than the polar icecaps.

God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.

How can anyone become a thinker unless he spends at least a third of every day away from passions, people, and books?

I'm in a different chapter of my life. As time goes by and I grow older, I find that I need to just be quiet and think. There have been periods when I've locked myself away for days, but now it's different - I'm married and we have a daughter who is in my office the whole time.

I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.)

Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles.

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

Then never less alone than when alone.

I love being in cities with lots of other people, because I'm reminded that there are billions of people like me, and we are each stuck inside of our minds, feverishly trying to crawl out to make connections with other people.

There is no bore we dread being left alone with so much as our own minds.

I exist in the depths of solitude pondering my true goal Trying 2 find peace of mind and still preserve my soul

You may never be less alone than when you are alone.

You should rejoice that you're in prison. Here you have time to think about your soul.

When I’m alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call.

Any human being has private thoughts.

The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.

And for this you must have quiet and solitude. But society does not allow you to have them. You must be with people, outwardly active at all costs. If you are alone you are considered antisocial or peculiar, or you are afraid of your own loneliness.

I like to live in my own mind, regardless of everyone and everything, working out the intimate puzzles that are my stories and novels.

I want to know what you're thinking, you want to know what I'm thinking. But we're alone. In our own minds. We're trapped in this sort of isolation.