Quotes About Solitude

Right after her funeral I felt the way you feel when it suddenly starts raining hard, and you look around and find no place to take shelter.

E infine si mise a ridere e proclamò con una certa solennità: "Io non mi innamorerò mai di nessuno e non scriverò mai mai mai una poesia". "Non ci credo". "E' così". "Ma gli altri si innamoreranno di te". "Peggio per loro". "Soffriranno come questa Didone". "No, si andranno a fidanzare con un'altra, proprio come ha fatto Enea, che alla fine si è messo con la figlia di un re".

to be healthy, and desperate to be a Natasha at the ball with Prince Andrei or Kuryagin, and instead to be sitting alone, staring at the ceiling, while listening to the echo of the music, the sound of voices, the laughter.

The solitude of women's minds is regrettable, I said to myself, it's a waste to be separated from each other, without procedures, without tradition.

he must have read in my face that it was a happy moment. For months I had been grinding away, feeling alone, ugly.

E' un dispiacere la solitudine femminile delle teste, mi dicevo, è uno sciupio questo tagliarsi via l'una dall'altra, senza protocolli, senza tradizione.

There are people who leave and people who know how to be left.

Se encontraban en uno de esos lugares, especie de última estación, en donde los viejos solitarios esperan un tren desconocido con destino igualmente desconocido, y todo lo que los rodea ha dejado de existir.

silence is solitude.

Diego, estoy sola. - Frida Kahlo en su diario, 1955. Diego, ya no estoy sola. - Frida Kahlo, 3 días después. Mundo, estoy solo. - México, 19 de septiembre de 1985. Mundo, ya no estoy solo. - México, 21 de septiembre de 1985.

After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.

You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

I have no sounds that could serve to soothe me, no violoncello like him, no lament that anyone would recognize as a lament because it sounds subdued, in an inexpressibly tender language. I have only these lines on the yellowish paper and words that are never new, for they keep saying the same thing through an entire life.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

Contemplation and writing demand solitude, which leads to a sorry feeling of isolation and detachment. Writers try to call their loneliness genius, and the world believes them most of the time.

The hermit is he who needs a friend, and in the absence of a community has befriended himself.

But where can you go and truly not be found? Where can anyone go anymore?

I get a warm feeling among my books.

NO ROADS, NOT a single one, lead to the place where we had gotten ourselves.

If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely,

The need to create a citadel in which to hide from the world is characteristic of people with a schizoid disposition

In solitude What happiness? Who can enjoy alone, Or all enjoying what contentment find?' Milton

No man ever will unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.' De Quincey

As we have seen, many creative activities are predominantly solitary. They are concerned with self-realization and self-development in isolation, or with finding some coherent pattern in life. The degree to which these creative activities take priority in the life of an individual varies with his personality and talents. Everyone needs some human relationships; but everyone also needs some kind of fulfilment which is relevant to himself alone.