Quotes About Solitude

Live in concealment in order that you may live to yourself. Live ignorant of that which seems to your age to be most important!

Believe me, friend Hellishnoise: the greatest events—they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.

But when Zarathustra was alone, he addressed his heart thus: "Can it really be possible? This old holy man in his forest still hasn't received any notice that God is dead!

We are so fond of being out among Nature, because it has no opinions about us.

Solitude can be very rewarding and full of blessing because in the silence of the inner being, one finds God

y el gozo que le produjo esa mujer, le había permitido entender por que los hombres tenían miedo a la muerte CIEN AÑOS DE SOLEDAD

Always. At every moment, asleep and awake, during the most sublime and most abject moments, Amaranta thought of Rebeca, because solitude had made a selection in her memory and had burned the dimming piles of nostalgic waste that life had accumulated in her heart, and had purified, magnified, and eternalized the others, the most bitter ones.

El secreto de una buena vejez no es mas que un pacto honrado con la soledad.

Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.

Si vas a volverte loco, vuelve te solo

She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .

Let me stay here, he said. There was soap.

not knowing what he was doing because he did not know where his feet were or where his head was, or whose feet or whose head, and feeling that he could no longer resist the glacial rumbling of his kidneys and the air of his intestines, and fear, and the bewildered anxiety to flee and at the same time stay forever in that exasperated silence and that fearful solitude.

for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

Tant de choses qu'on imagine quand on est tout seul, et de la tempête dehors!

Everyone else reached the Shores of Sleep, but I remained oceans away.

Other people don't exist when you're not with them.

and one knows, after a long time of solitude, after the many steps taken away from one's kind, toward the kingdom of strangers, the hard prayer inside one's own singing is to come back, if one can, to one's own, a world almost lost, in the exile that deepens, when one has lived a long time alone.

It's about what humans need to be happy. Sure, we evolved to live in complex interdependent social groups, but before that, we were nomads, pursuing resource opportunities in an open, sparsely populated landscape. That means for some people, solitude and independence are primary values.

Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.

Of all the seasons, winter is the most conducive to the great art of dormancy. This art requires an appreciation of semi-consciousness: the beautiful and necessary prelude to sleep - a special pleasure in itself that is all too often neglected, under-valued or looked down upon.

The country is more of a wilderness, more of a wild solitude, in the winter than in the summer. The wild comes out. The urban, the cultivated, is hidden or negatived.

In the winter, I read next to a wood-burning stove. In the summer, we have a place up in Michigan where I like to read in a hammock. It's almost entirely hidden by cedar trees and right up by the water. You can climb in there and see nothing but water and be seen by nobody. It's perfect.

There's nothing better than curling up with a good book and sitting in front of the fire on winter evenings.