Quotes About Solitude

One listens to the murmur of the soul only because of boredom.

My life till now seems to have been fairly empty, and the certainty that it will remain empty gives a feeling of endlessness, a feeling which tells one to go to sleep, and to do only the most unavoidable things.

I had become an inward being, and I walked as in an inward world; everything outside me became a dream; what I had understood till now became unintelligible.

To be alone: icy, iron terror, foretaste of the grave, forerunner of unpitying death. Oh, whoever has been himself alone can never find another's loneliness strange.

In the forest you pray involuntarily, and it's also the only place in the world where God is near; God seems to have created forests so we can pray in them as if in sacred temples; one person prays in one way, another in another, but everyone prays. When you lie beneath a fir tree reading a book, you are praying, if praying is the same as being lost in thought. Let God be where He will, in the forest you can sense Him, and you offer up your little bit of belief with silent rapture.

I think that one listens to the murmur of the soul only because of boredom.

Every sensitive person carries in himself old cities enclosed by ancient walls —Robert Walser. A German-speaking Swiss writer, Walser is understood to be the missing link between Kleist and Kafka. Confined to a sanatorium in Herisau, Switzerland, he used to write 'micrograms', (undecipherable short texts handwritten in a nano text-size) and take long walks. On the 25th of December 1956 he was found, dead of a heart attack, in a field of snow.

In the forest you pray involuntarily.

Being alone makes us stronger. That's the honest truth. But it's cold comfort, since even if I wanted company no one will come near me anymore.

But I was a lonely creature, and although I would have been very happy to have a friend I just never happened to meet one.

It was blissful, spending time with someone who would leave you alone. I loved him for it. And I was happy to repay in kind. It had never occurred to me that leaving someone alone could harden into a habit that could become a barrier.

And since I am the only one who sees you, why are you not then beautiful?

I give you a small serenity.

And what was I panicking about anyway? Being left alone with myself? I'd rather have a vampire around? Well. Yes.

Have there been many recently who walk where I go now?" inquired the soldier. "No," said the captain of the guard. "There have not been many." And he stepped back into the shadows without saying any more.

Luthe sat wearily down. 'I have sat up here too long; it is so pleasant, not meddling.

It was blissful, spending time with someone who would leave you alone. I loved him for it. And I was happy to repay in kind.

Learn to Be Silent

first strategy was known to the sages as the Ritual of Solitude.

Its purpose is self-renewal, and this is accomplished by spending time alone, immersed in the beautiful blanket of silence.

All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone.

French mathematician Blaise Pascal wrote: "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone." Release

La mayor parte de la gente no se soporta a sí misma. Por eso nunca pueden estar a solas, ni en silencio. Necesitan estar constantemente con otras personas para escapar de sus sentimientos de odio a sí mismos por todo su potencial perdido, y se pierden las maravillas y la sabiduría que la soledad y la calma aportan. O ven la televisión sin parar y sin darse cuenta de que están erosionando su imaginación y les está llevando a la bancarrota.