Quotes About Solitude

If there is a recurring theme in Garfield's diaries it's this: I'd rather be reading.

how many days without a radio it will take to get my songs back?

La Solitude est un condition necessaire de la liberte.

Supongo que uno no puede prever los inconvenientes de la soledad.

Ya no puedo recibir de estas soledades trágicas nada más que un poco de pureza vacía.

I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.

Shall I run back into the desert ... and stay there until the devil has passed out of me and I am fit to meet human kind again without driving it to despair at the first look? I haven't had enough desert yet.

You had to talk with yourself in the daytime and reason with yourself at night. Who else was there to talk to in a city like New York?

There I stretched out on the low bed and remained for days, sick. If Tertullian came to the window of heaven to rejoice in the sight of the damned, as he said he'd do, he might have seen my leg across his line of vision through the sunlight. That was how I felt.

Izišao je iz stana svladavaju?i tugu zbog tog samotnog života. Prsni koš mu se raširio a grlo steglo. - Za ime božje, nemoj plakati, idiote jedan! Umri ili živi, ali nemoj sve zatrovati.

At that time, when you thought, and I agreed, that I shouldn't be alone, perhaps I really should have been alone

For to be fully conscious of oneself as an individual is also to be separated from all else.

And while the losses were small they weren't gains, were they? They were losses. He was tired of losing, and tired also of the company, and so he had gone by himself to the movies.

What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or take away from him, this is obviously more essential for him than everything that he possesses or what he may be in the eyes of others...

Genuine tranquility of the heart and perfect peace of mind, the highest blessings on earth after health, are to be found only in solitude and, as a permanent disposition, only in the deepest seclusion.

Whoever takes a gloomy view regards this world as a kind of hell and is accordingly concerned only with procuring for himself a small fireproof room.

One should remember that at times even Jesus separated from the crowds to seek solitude with his heavenly Father. Hence the Bible seems to suggest that self-interest has a legitimate place, but it needs to be balanced by a compassionate concern for the interests of others.

Scott Nicholson

Da allora il sole, la luna e le stelle possono continuare tranquillamente il loro corso, io non so se sia giorno o notte, e tutto il mondo svanisce intorno a me.

Solitude is precious balm to my heart in these paradistic parts.

The world is so waste and empty, when we figure only towns and hills and rivers in it; but to know of some one here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence,—this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden.

Ben ayr?m?nda de?ilim: Ne zaman gündüz oluyor, ne zaman gece. Evren etraf?mdan silindi ve sadece o kald?.

To spare such speeches, it were well! They of the witches' kitchen smell, And of a time long past and gone. To know the world have I not sought? The empty learned, the empty taught?- Spake I out plainly, as in reason bound, Then doubly loud the paradox would sound; By Fortune's adverse buffets overborne To solitude I fled, to wilds forlorn, And not in utter loneliness to live, Myself at last did to the Devil give!

DICHTER: O sprich mir nicht von jener bunten Menge, Bei deren Anblick uns der Geist entflieht. Verhülle mir das wogende Gedränge, Das wider Willen uns zum Strudel zieht.