16 Metaphors for solitude

The solitude, the absorbedness, the lying in a bed month by month, the gazing upon a fixed point hour by hourthese are all self-evident facts with me, a deserted misanthrope.

Solitude, therefore, in which the mind unhindered feeds upon its own delusions, was the assignable cause of her gradual mental disruption and collapse.

"Solitude is a rare spur to thought.

If it were not for these two reasons, a man would probably elect to remain alone; if only because solitude is the sole condition of life which gives full play to that feeling of exclusive importance which every man has in his own eyes,as if he were the only person in the world!

Solitude is a word unknown to nature's vocabulary.

Her solitude, formerly so irksome, became the source of her greatest delight; her person, so long neglected, again was an object of solicitude; and her artful and jealous husband, on his return from the chase, often discovered in her features the traces of a satisfaction his conscience told him he was not the author of.

Solitude is a wonderfully calming, composing thing; Emilie knew that, and she did quite right to leave Edith alone.

Solitude was to such men a release from fatigue, and an opportunity of usefulness.

We have the mountains, lake, and sky, And solitude is a precious boon.

Solitude, indeed, is the last quality that an intelligent student of his career would ascribe to him.

The night-time solitude, and the dark, were my hell.

" The solitude of the mind is only a painful delusion; it has no real existence, for even the most independent of us are members of a spiritual family.

Solitude was a necessity of her being, she told Mr. Horton, when he recommended that she should have some one always in attendance upon her.

The savage solitude of the higher regions was a great contrast to the wealth of the chapel of the Ochava, full of relics in golden vessels and caskets of enamel and precious marbles, to the quantities of pearls and emeralds in the magnificent treasury, heaped up as though they had been peas, and to the elegant luxury of the wardrobe, full of rare and costly stuffs and vestments exquisitely embroidered with every colour of the rainbow.

From this point of view it may be said that solitude is the original and natural state of man, where, like another Adam, he is as happy as his nature will allow.

After this the solitude of the suburbs, with their maimed and rusting factories, their stagnant canals, their empty lots, their high, lusty weeds, their abolished railway and train stations, was a secondary matter leaving practically no impression on the exhausted sensibility.

16 Metaphors for  solitude