Quotes About Solitude

Für jeden, der Angst hat, einsam oder unglücklich ist, ist es bestimmt das beste Mittel, hinauszugehen, irgendwohin, wo er ganz alleine ist, allein mit dem Himmel, der Natur und Gott. Dann erst, nur dann, fühlt man, daß alles so ist, wie es sein soll, und daß Gott die Menschen in der einfachen und schönen Natur glücklich sehen will. (S. 192)

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as is it should be.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.

If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise, they might think I was strange.

I mean that most people, whether or not they're married, are lonely inside. They have no one to talk to about their thoughts and emotions. That's what I miss the most.

A gente pode estar sozinha mesmo quando é amada por muitas pessoas.

A person can be lonely even if he is loved by many people.

My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.

For twenty years I have ached to go back home, when there was nobody there to whom I could return.

My favorite moment in Jeanne Moreau's latest movie--a comedy called The Summer House --takes place in a kitchen, when she proclaims that every human has something to cry about. When mocked by the owner of the kitchen and pressed to say what it is that we have to cry about, she tosses back her head of flaming red hair and says, The winds of solitude roaring at the edge of infinity.

Being a writer guarantees that you will spend too much time alone -- and that as a result, your mind will begin to warp.

who as a young person, like me, accepted being alone quite a lot. I think that this sort of person often becomes either a writer or a career criminal.

The trees are so huge that they shut you up.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage.

Timeon had quite possibly been traveling a long time, Mearme thought with no compassion.

I like opera just fine; it's people I wanted to get away from." As

What is a man, said Athos, who has no landscape? Nothing but mirrors and tides.

When you are alone -- at sea, in the polar dark -- an absence can keep you alive.

How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange.

What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!

Grief can't be shared. Everyone carries it alone, his own burden, his own way.

If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange. What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!

I promise to respect and protect your aloneness, knowing that everything created must have its period of darkness: child and bulb, poem and personality. I promise not to pry into your loneliness, never to tear at the bud with frightened fingers to make sure there is a flower inside. I believe in the flower.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.