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We all have our safe places, where none are invited. They are lonely rooms full of the musk of memory. Sanctuary rather than adventure. — Basith

I cannot love, I want to be alone. I will not love, I want to be alone. — Laura Marling

When I lie back and close my eyes, this farthest lip of beach right next to the end of the ocean feels like being up close to an enormous breathing being, the bass drum surf thump reverberating through the sand. Living out here with no lights, alone, you would indeed become sensitive to seasons, rhythms, weather, sounds - right up next to the sea, right up under the sky, like lying close to a lover's skin to hear blood and breath and heartbeat. — Paul Bogard The End of...

She herself, as she had said, was oddly enjoying the snowy night. She had seldom had reason to be abroad in such weather at night, and she had forgotten, or never noticed, how clear the sky was or how brightly the stars twinkled down. They might have been the only ones alive in the whole world, for it was deadly still, the eerie light giving the night almost a magical quality. Everyday items were rendered mysterious and beautiful by their layer of white, and the only sounds were those they made, of creaking leather and the crisp squeak of snow underfoot. — Dawn Lindsey The Great Lady...

I've learnt that solitude is sometimes a path that leads to peace — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Watcher in the...

Foggy nights bring some comfort. He can get lost in the mist and there is no one to stare or question. — Susie Clevenger Dirt Road Dreams

Can go for weeks without hearing the sound of a human voice. And I love it, Melody. I love it. I don't need people the way you do. Hell, I don't even like most people. — William W. Johnstone The First...

I AM ALWAYS ALONE. BUT JUST NOW I WANT TO BE ALONE BY MYSELF. — Terry Pratchett Reaper Man

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that's what I've had to make the best of.

The image of a cleanly, self-possessed man exploiting his solitude was not easy to come by, but then he had not expected that it would be.

In solitude, struggles occur that no one else knows about. Inner battles are fought here that seldom become fodder for sermons or illustrations for books. God, who probes our deepest thoughts during...

Their drift away from others produced a selfish privacy and they had lost the refuge and the consolation of a clan. Baptists, Presbyterians, tribe, army, family, some encircling outside thing was...

I hate solitude, but I'm afraid of intimacy. The substance of my life is a private conversation with myself which to turn into a dialogue would be equivalent to self-destruction. The company which I...

One of the happiest minutes I know is the minute, {...} people are an effort for me, including men. As for the mood, I don't make anything of it, as I said. Sometimes you get soft, but you start...

Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.

I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.

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If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....

It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?

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