Quotes About Solitude

I decided to abstain from everything, to go forward in nothing, to reduce action to a minimum, to make it hard for people and events to find me, to perfect the art of abstinence, and to take abdication to unprecedented heights.

Ni brisa, ni gente que interrumpa lo que no pienso.

Estás só. Ninguém o sabe. Cala e finge. Mas finge sem fingimento. Nada 'speres que em ti já não exista, Cada um consigo é triste. Tens sol se há sol, ramos se ramos buscas, Sorte se a sorte é dada.

I take comfort in these reflections, since I can't take comfort in life.

Passeávamos às vezes, braço dado, sob os cedros e as olaias e nenhum de nós pensava em viver

It's the fact that in all this — sky, earth, world — there is never anything but myself!

I cultivate hatred of action like a greenhouse flower.

Where can one think of fleeing, if the cell is everything? And

Inutilmente parecemos grandes. Salvo nós nada pelo mundo fora Nos saúda a grandeza Nem sem querer nos serve.

A doçura de não ter família nem companhia, esse suave gosto como o do exílio, em que sentimos o orgulho do desterro esbater-nos em volúpia incerta a vaga inquietação de estar longe

Exist? destul? metafizic? în a nu te gândi la nimic.

Andei sozinho na praia Andei na praia a pensar No jeito da tua saia Quando lá estiveste a andar.

N-am nici ambi?ii ?i nici dorin?e. A fi poet nu e pentru mine o ambi?ie. e doar felul meu de a fi singur.

Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake of money, company, love, glory or curiosity, none of which can thrive in silence and solitude. If you can't live alone, you were born a slave.

Estou hoje vencido, como se soubesse a verdade. Estou hoje lúcido, como se estivesse para morrer, E não tivesse mais irmandade com as coisas

Le mie abitudini appartengono alla solitudine e non agli uomini. Non so se l'ha detto Rousseau o Senancour. Comunque era uno spirito della mia specie: vorrei poter dire della mia razza.

Estou hoje lúcido como se não existisse.

Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder if my apparently negligible voice might not embody the essence of thousands of voices, the longing for self-expression of thousands of lives, the patience of millions of souls resigned like my own to their daily lot, their useless dreams, and their hopeless hopes. In these moments my heart beats faster because I'm conscious of it.

And what a refreshing and happy horror that there was nobody there! Not even we, who walked there, were there… For we were nobody. We were nothing at all… We had no life for Death to have to kill. We were so tenuous and slight that the wind's passing left us prostrate, and time's passage caressed us like a breeze grazing the top of a palm.

When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes of witty sociability with nobody. But all of this vanishes when I face someone in the flesh: I lose my intelligence, I can no longer speak, and after half an hour I just feel tired. Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams, are genuinely real and substantial

I feel so isolated that I'm aware of the distance between me and my suit.

I consider myself fortunate for no longer having family, as it relieves me of the obligation to love someone, which I would surely find oppressive.

To associate is to die. Only my consciousness of myself is real for me; other people are hazy phenomena in this consciousness, and it would be morbid to attribute very much reality to them.

Hep savunma hatt?nday?m. Hayat?n ve baÅŸkalar?n?n ac?s?n? çektiriyorum kendime. Gerçeklikle yüzleÅŸebilmekten âcizim. GüneÅŸ bile, salt varl???yla eziyor, hüzne boÄŸuyor beni. Sadece gece vakti –geceleyin, kendimle baÅŸ baÅŸayken–, her ÅŸeyden uzak, her ÅŸeyi unutan, ne gerçeklikle ne de bir ÅŸeylerin yarar?yla ilgisi olmayan, yitik gecede kendime kavuÅŸuyor, biraz teselli buluyorum.