Quotes About Solitude

By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies—all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.

Si l'on est différent, il est fatal qu'on soit seul.

The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

Shut lips, sleeping faces, Every stopped machine, The dumb and littered places Where crowds have been:. All silences rejoice, Weep (loudly or low), Speak-but with the voice Of whom, I do not know.

I am not very sociable and am always glad to return to solitude and the freedom that goes with solitude. This desire for freedom and solitude has lead to a not only to a consistent effort to avoid situations in which I would be under the control of other people, but also to an indifference to the satisfactions of power and position, things which impose a servitude...

Por su misma naturaleza, cada espíritu con una encarnación está condenado a padecer y gozar en la soledad.

it is natural to believe in God when you're alone—quite alone, in the night, thinking about death . . ." "But people never are alone now," said Mustapha Mond. "We make them hate solitude; and we arrange their lives so that it's almost impossible for them ever to have it.

Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

But all the same," insisted the Savage, "it is natural to believe in God when you're alone—quite alone, in the night, thinking about death …" "But people never are alone now," said Mustapha Mond. "We make them hate solitude; and we arrange their lives so that it's almost impossible for them ever to have it.

Želio bih promatrati more na miru.Od toga se osje?am kao...kao da postajem više ja,ako shva?aš što želim re?i.Više svoj,a ne u potpunosti samo dio ne?ega.Ne samo stanica u tijelu društva.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium. At present people in search of pleasure naturally tend to congregate in large herds and to make a noise; in future their natural tendency will be to seek solitude and quiet. The proper study of mankind is books.

But all the same," insisted the Savage, "it is quite natural to believe in God when you're alone-quite alone, in the night, thinking about death …" "But people never are alone now," said Mustapha Mond. "We make them hate solitude; and we arrange their lives so that it's almost impossible for them to ever have it.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely. They're beastly to one.

Nimeni nu te poate ajuta,nimeni nu poate fi vreodata prezent:oamenii pot sta în jurul t?u cât timp suferi ÅŸi eÅŸti pe moarte;dar ei stau într-o alt? lume.În lumea ta,eÅŸti absolut singur.Singur în suferinÅ£a ta,în agonia ta,aÅŸa cum eÅŸti singur în iubire,singur pân? ÅŸi în pl?cerea cea mai deplin împ?rt??it?.

Si uno es diferente se ve condenado a la soledad. Los demás le tratan brutalmente.

At Malpais he had suffered because they had shut him out from the communal activities of the pueblo, in civilized London he was suffering because he could not escape from those communal activities, never be quietly alone.

But all the same," insisted the Savage, "it is natural to believe in God when you're alone—quite alone, in the night, thinking about death…

Una deficiencia física puede producir una especie de exceso mental. Al parecer, el proceso era reversible. Un exceso mental podía producir, en bien de sus propios fines, la voluntaria ceguera y sordera de la soledad deliberada, la impotencia artificial del ascetismo.

Lo que había dado a Helmholtz la desagradable conciencia de ser él mismo y estar totalmente solo, era un exceso de inteligencia.

EÄŸer farkl?ysan, yaln?zl??a mahkûm oluyorsun.

O ser diferente condena a uma fatal solidão.

By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude.

There was a little hill behind the house. You climbed it, and there was the whole sky from horizon to horizon. A hundred and eighty degrees of brute inexplicable mystery. It was a good place for just sitting and saying nothing.