Rebecca Solnit Quotes

Be alone even when there's a million people around, because tomorrow it will be a different million people.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody.

She's alone, they kept telling themselves, and surely she danced in no one's arms, yet somehow that seemed to matter less and less. As the night went on, and clarinet and coyote call mingled beyond the lantern light, the magic of their own powder-blue jackets and orchids seemed to fade, and it came to them in small sensations that they were more alone than she was.

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

Those reflective moments for me usually come from loneliness and separation from people.

I would be at home reading, because I felt so disconnected from humanity.

If there is anything good about exile, it is that it teaches one humility. It accelerates one’s drift into isolation, an absolute perspective. Into the condition at which all one is left with is oneself and one’s language, with nobody or nothing in between. Exile brings you overnight where it would normally take a lifetime to go.

There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up your life, or perhaps especially if you had just screwed up your life.

But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.

Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

I am ready to be alone.

Some walks you have to take alone.

I believe that it is sometimes less difficult to wake up and feel that I am alone when I really am, than to wake up with someone else and be lonely.

I sometimes feel that I am trying to dig in the world around me. I'm involved in another kind of archaeology to look for another kind of truth, and the moment I find, the moment I am separated from that life, the moment I am sort of in a world, every time I have gone out and performed in the, in the cinema for example, if you do two or three films on the trot you suddenly have this impression that you're becoming separate or separated from the world around you.

We live as we dream - alone.

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

I have come one step away from everything. And here I stay, far from everything, one step away.

To love makes one solitary.

Solitude is separate experience.

I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.

Loneliness is a prerequisite for freedom. Freedom depends on the ability to reflect, and reflection can only begin when one is alone.