Quotes About Solitude

Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants.

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.

I have always despised people who join societies. In general, I feel that groups of any kind are for the weak. The need for consensus is the most disgusting and pathetic aspect of our human world. Is there none who can simply wander alone beneath a sort of cloth tent painted with dreams?

A hermit always longs for visitors, said Loring,until they come, and then he wishes them gone.

I'm on the benevolent side of antisocial. I don't mind people, but I'd prefer not to have a lot of them around.

Once my mom passed away, I have nobody to answer to. It's great.

silent tears fall ruefully at midnight

We read because we are essentially alone.

One of the advantages of having an imaginary boyfriend is that he exists only for you, therefore he can not be stolen. The disadvantage is that you can not introduce him to your friends.

Come potrebbe un uomo prigioniero nella ragnatela della routine ricordarsi che è un uomo, un individuo ben distinto, uno al quale è concessa un'unica occasione di vivere, con speranze e delusioni, dolori e timori, col desiderio di amare e il terrore della solitudine e del nulla?

To feel completely alone and isolated leads to mental disintegration just as physical starvation leads to death.

O passo mais importante no aprendizado da concentração é aprender a ficar só consigo mesmo, sem ler, sem ouvir rádio, sem fumar, sem beber. Na verdade, ser capaz de concentrar-se significa ser capaz de ficar só consigo mesmo

Paradójicamente, la capacidad de estar solo es la condición indispensable para la capacidad de amar.

Ma in molti individui per i quali, la solitudine non può essere superata in nessun modo, la ricerca dell'orgasmo sessuale assume una funzione che li rende non molto diversi da alcolizzati e dai tossicomani. Diventa un tentativo disperato di sfuggire all'ansia suscitata dal separazione e il suo risultato è un sempre crescente senso d'isolamento, poiché l'atto sessuale senza amore, non riempie mai il baratro che divide due creature umane, se non in modo assolutamente momentaneo.

Let the months and years come, they can take nothing from me, they can take nothing more. I am so alone, and so without hope that I can confront them without fear. The life that has borne me through these years is still in my hands and my eyes. Whether I have subdued it, I know not. But so long as it is there it will seek its own way out, heedless of the will that is within me. -All Quiet On The Western Front, Chapter 12

I, too, am going to go away soon,' she says, 'I am weary and weary of my weariness. Everything is beginning to be a little empty and full of leave-taking and melancholy and waiting.

We had suddenly learned to see. And we saw that there was nothing of their world left. We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

T]his is really the only thing: just to sit quietly, like this. They understand of course, they agree, they may even feel it so too, but only with words, only with words, yes that is it - they feel it, but always with only half of themselves, the rest of their being taken up by with other things, they are so divided in themselves that none feels it with his whole essence;

Going away is not always so simple—when one takes oneself along.

People should die, only when they're alone. Or when they hate—not when they love.

To be alone—the eternal refrain of life. It wasn't better or worse than anything else. One talked too much about it. One was always and never alone. A violin, suddenly—somewhere out of a twilight—in a garden on the hills around Budapest. The heavy scent of chestnuts. The wind. And dreams crouched on one's shoulders like young owls, their eyes becoming lighter in the dusk. A night that never became night. The hour when all women were beautiful.

Niemand kennt mich hier, dachte sie. Und niemand weiß, dass ich hier bin! Sie empfand diese Anonymität wie ein sonderbares, stürmisches Glück, das Glück, einem Glück entkommenzu sein, auf kurze Zeit oder für immer.

he begins to notice that he has been turned out of the silent company of the trees, the animals, the stars, and the unconscious life.

Üksindus – elu igavene refrään. See ei olnud ei pahem ega parem kui mõnigi muu asi. Sellest räägiti liiga palju. Inimene on alati – ja mitte iial – üksi.