Quotes About Solitude

When I stand here in front of the cabinet, my heart feels like a silkworm slumbering in its cocoon.

I'll keep you safe, here in my secret room.

and I found myself unable to resist turning around to see whether my footsteps were following me as I made my way across the field of white.

I don't know. Maybe there's a place out there where people whose hearts aren't empty can go on living.

Sarashina Nikki

All the eyes flew away from me like mayflies, I couldn't catch a single one

IT isn't good to talk much about the weather - weather is a highly personal matter

I know that each one of us travels to love alone, alone to faith and to death. I know it. I've tried it. It doesn't help. Let me come with you.

Bu pencere yaln?z. Bu y?ld?z yaln?z, masada unutulmu? bir c?gara gibi - tüten, mavi mavi tüten, tek ba??na. Ben de yaln?z?m, diyor adam. C?garam? yak?yorum, içiyorum. C?gara içip dü?ünüyorum. Yaln?z de?ilim.

An isolated person is doomed beyond remedy." Yasmina Khadra, Swallows of Kabul

That's the reason why I chose to spend my last years here and die in my house on the seashore. A man who looks at the sea turns his back on the misfortunes of the world. Somehow, he resigns himself to them.

This room was our ivory tower, Sihem and mine. No one else was ever admitted here. Sometimes we'de come here to commune with our silence and reactivate our senses, dulled and blunted by the noises of every day. We'd bring a book or put on some music, and then we were off. We read Kafka as well as Khalil Gibran, and listened to Oum Kalthoum and Pavarotti with the same grattitude....

Cel ce lasa sa ii scape dragostea vietii sale va ajunge singur cu regretele sale si toate suspinele lumii nu ii pot aduce alinarea sufletului.

I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there.

Fox: It's lonely at the top. Gould: But it ain't crowded.

Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?

Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.

Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three—and managed to have no sexual encounter whatsoever?

And among the sleeping soldiers and colonists in the crypts lay one apart, a woman who had forgotten the meaning of life.

The quiet this evening is unsettling. I hadn't realised how loud life was until it all stopped.

I have always been well liked, I think, always well regarded and respected, but having few enemies is not the same as having many friends, and there was no denying that I was, if not "lonely", more solitary than I'd hoped to be at that time.

Living in her University town felt like stayng on at a party that everyone else had left.

Lonely' is a troubling word and not one to be tossed around lightly. It makes people uncomfortable, summoning up as it does all kinds of harsher adjectives, like 'sad' or 'strange'. I have always been well liked, I think, always well regarded and respected, but having few enemies is not the same as having many friends, and there was no denying that I was, if not 'lonely', more solitary than I'd hoped to be at that time.

Lonely' is a troubling word and not one to be tossed around lightly. It makes people uncomfortable, summoning up as it does all kinds of harsher adjectives, like 'sad' or 'strange'. I have always been well liked, I think, always well regarded and respected, but having few enemies is not the same as having many friends, and there was no denying that I was, if not 'lonely', more solitary than I'd hoped to be at that time.