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Quotes About Solitude

When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum....
~ Amy Lowell
I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.
~ Amy Sedaris
I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.
~ Amy Sedaris
Alongside the need to be coupled is an equally compelling need to be left utterly alone.
~ Amy Sohn
Mountain lion!
~ Amy Timberlake
De tan levísimo el oleaje, el mar parecía una laguna. Me quité los zapatos para probar la temperatura del agua, que refulgía blanca bajo el fogaje del sol.
~ Ana Lydia Vega
Enfrente, a su espalda, a sus costados, estaban las otras cumbres: Oz, Cuatro Cruces, los agudos colmillos de Sagrado, Vientoduro. Más allá, la lejanía del Negromonte. Casí transparente, más allá de los pinares y las hayas, se adivinaba la ingrata zona de las Artámilas, con su hambre y su miseria.
~ Ana María Matute
Alicia en el mundo del espejo", pensé, más de una vez, contemplándome en él, desnuda y desolada con un gran deseo de atravesar su superficie, que parecía gelatinosa. Tristísima imagen aquella -la mía-, de ojos asustados, que era, tal vez, la imagen misma de la soledad.
~ Ana María Matute
I was a very solitary, introverted child who got punished by being sent to a dark room quite frequently. But you cannot imagine how much I enjoyed myself in that room, and how I would look forward to being punished, because it was there that I discovered the light of darkness.
~ Ana María Matute
No me detendré jamás, mientras me quede vida —se decía, contemplando aquella vasta tierra despoblada y espantosamente solitaria—, hasta que ni un palmo de tierra quede oculta a mis ojos y hollada por mi pie.
~ Ana María Matute
Weather out the storm in the island of tranquility to find inner peace.
~ Ana Monnar
The sadness of churches at night moves me; I feel in them the grandeur of nothingness.
~ Anatole France
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world. That is what he wishes to say. He is right. You may always explain: you never are understood.
~ Anatole France
Je préfère, encore une fois, marcher dans la nuit à me croire celui qui marche dans le jour.
~ Andre Breton
I will be like Nijinksi, who was taken last year to the Russian ballet, and could not comprehend what spectacle he was viewing. I will be alone, quite alone in myself, indifferent to all the world's ballets.
~ Andre Breton
The eternal silence of infinite spaces reassures me.
~ André Comte-Sponville
?kili yaln?zl?k, b?kk?nl??a, can s?k?nt?s?na kadar varmay?nca, duygular?n ve güvenin a??r a??r yükselmesini sa?lar, bu da bu yaln?zl??? payla?anlar? çok yakla?t?r?r.
~ Andre Maurois
What else can we do but garden our shadows while far away the universe burns and vanishes.
~ Andrée Chedid
Por qué buscas la compañía en tus momentos de degradación? Vuélvete adicto de los vicios solitarios.
~ Andrés Caicedo
La lectura es la comunicación perfecta de acciones solitarias
~ Andrés Caicedo
Tennis is the loneliest sport.
~ Andre Agassi
it's almost easier being down and alone than when you re up and no one s there to share the view with you
~ Andre Dubus III
Solitude is bearable only with God
~ Andre Gide
Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone
~ Andre Gide