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Quotes About Solitude

We don't care about humiliating ourselves to ourselves, after all, no one is going to judge us and there are no witnesses.
~ Javier Marías
Hay un escritor llamado Clerk o Lewis que escribió sobre sí mismo tras la muerte de su mujer, y empezó diciendo: "Nadie me dijo nunca que la pena fuera una sensación tan parecida al miedo
~ Javier Marías
I never get involved in anything and I don't make enemies either, I keep myself to myself.
~ Javier Marías
Quienes actúan envueltos en niebla y de espaldas al resto, y no reclaman ni necesitan reconocimiento, esos son los que turban más el universo.
~ Javier Marías
es egoísta el insomnio.
~ Javier Marías
hotel de una ciudad nunca vista, elegida sólo al azar del anochecer: fingir que uno está soltero y sin responsabilidades, y sin nadie a quien regresar.
~ Javier Marías
All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!
~ Dr. Seuss
I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.
~ Dr. Seuss
Per tutti i mali ci sono due rimedi, il tempo e il silenzio
~ Dumas, Alexandre
as small as a world and as large as alone For whatever we lose(like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea
~ e. e. cummings
l(a le af fa ll s)o ne li ne ss
~ E.E. Cummings
n OthI n g can s urPas s the m y SteR y of s tilLnes s
~ E.E. Cummings
As small as a world as large as alone.
~ E.E. Cummings
May picked up a smooth round stone, As small as a world and as large as alone.
~ E.E. Cummings
may came home with a smooth round stone as small as a world and as large as alone. For whatever we lose(like a you or a me) it's always ourselves we find in the sea
~ E.E. Cummings
He was a moody, distracted young fellow, and it was clear his own mind was more company to him than people were.
~ E.L. Doctorow
Jennifer, I asked, what do you ever do besides read? She looked up at the sky and sighed and said very seriously, I think.
~ E.L. Konigsburg
Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write?" said Rilke.
~ Eavan Boland
For awhile, I was left with nothing on the physical plane. I had no relationships, no job, no home, no socially defined identity. I spent almost two years sitting on park benches in a state of the most intense joy.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Si no puedes sentirte a gusto cuando estás solo, buscarás una relación para remediar tu inquietud.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had ever known.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
Formerly they had dwelt in the Belgian Congo until the cruelties of their heartless oppressors had driven them to seek the safety of unexplored solitudes beyond the boundaries of Leopold's domain.
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
If you don't think it's lonesome wandering all by yourself through savage, unknown Pellucidar, why, just try it, and you will not wonder that I was glad of the company of this first dog
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs