Quotes About Solitude

There's always been a wild quiet about Solly. It stays in the air near him like a scent.

Confound it, Madam, my head is out of bounds! It's the one spot where I can have a bit of peace!

There is nothing more mysterious than a TV set left on in an empty room. It is even stranger than a man talking to himself or a woman standing dreaming at her stove. It is as if another planet is communicating with you. Suddenly the TV reveals itself for what it really is; a video of another world, ultimately addressed to no one at all, delivering its own message.

Prowling his own quiet backyard or asleep by the fire, he is still only a whisker away from the wilds.

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

Ram?sesem singurii care mai credeam în noi în?ine. De aceea tr?iam între noi, vânam între noi, ne c?s?toream între noi. Lumea credea c? suntem îngânfa?i. Eram doar timizi. Ne era team? de ceilal?i oameni. Ne era team? de viitor, care era contrariul trecutului. Închideam în urma noastr? toate u?ile care d?deau spre o lume devenit? prea mare pentru noi ?i pentru speran?ele noastre înl?n?uite de amintiri.

Nina could scarcely believe a house could be as quiet as the one on Washington Street. Although there were moments when she missed her children, her main response to living apart from her husband was relief…[H]er current solitude was not just a respite, it was a time to contemplate her future options. Nina marveled that she had choices to consider.

If I can not have the most brilliant destiny, I want the most wretched, not for the purpose of a sterile solitude, but in order to achieve something new with such rare matter.

Beauty has no other origin than a wound, unique, different for each person, hidden or visible, that everyone keeps in himself, that he preserves and to which he withdraws when he wants to leave the world for a temporary but profound solitude.

They are not faithful. Above all, they have a blemish, a wound, comparable to the bunch of grapes in Stilitano's pants. In short, the greater my guilt in your eyes, the more whole, the more totally assumed, the greater will be my freedom. The more perfect my solitude and singleness.

In her garret, Divine lived only on tea and grief.

AINSI JE RESTE SEUL, oublié de lui qui dort dans mes bras. La mer est calme. Je n'ose bouger. Sa présence serait plus terrible que son voyage hors de moi. Peut­ être vomirait-il sur ma poitrine. Et qu'y pourrais-je faire ? Trier ses vomissures ? y chercher parmi le vin, la viande, la bile, ces violettes et ces roses qu'y délayent et délient les filets de sang ?

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

Ce matin, c'est le grand gel et le silence. C'est le silence, mais le vent n'est pas bien mort ; il ondule encore un peu ; il bat encore un peu de la queue contre le ciel dur. Il n'y a pas encore de soleil. Le ciel est vide ; le ciel est tout gelé comme un linge étendu.

sous le chêne

Aubignane, like a small wasps' nest, was stuck against the salient of the plateau. It was true that only three persons remained there. A grassless slope went down from the village. Almost at the bottom, there was a patch of soft earth and the wiry hair of a stunted osier bed. Below was a narrow valley with a little water.

Jeg trekker meg tilbake til en verden der styggheten eksisterer.

We are all primary numbers divisible only by ourselves.

That road, as it turned out, would be even lonelier than she had reason to fear.

He rode alone to the tenth floor, got off and strode into the newsroom. It was so strange, he thought, to see it empty. It was not the way he wanted to remember it.