Quotes About Solitude

Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.

O let me love my love unto myself alone, And know my knowledge to the world unknown, No witness to the vision call, Beholding, unbeheld of all...

Wanneer er rondom niets te verwachten is, keer je naar binnen.

If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

As the components of your life are stripped away, after all the ambitions and hopes vaporize, you reach a self-reflective starkness-- the repetitious plucking of a single overwound string.

It was so much easier to be alone, if one could find just the right location.

Now I am an outcast. I loathe my country. The best thing for me is a drunken sleep on the beach.

C'était comme une nuit d'hiver, avec une neige pour étouffer le monde décidément.

J'ai seul la clef de cette parade sauvage.

Il n'y a personne ici et il y a qeulqu'un: je ne voudrais pas répandre mon trésor.

He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude

I would wash the dust of the world in a soft green flood. Here between sea and sea in a fairy wood, I have found a delicate wave-green solitude.

When, that evening, Vatanen slowly ski'd back from Vittumainen Ghyll to Laahkima Gorge, accompanied by his hare, he no longer thought about Kaartinen's strange world. There was a half-moon, and the stars were glimmering faintly in the frozen evening. He had his own world, this one, and it was fine to be here, living alone in one's own way. The hare ambled silently along the trail ahead of the skier, like a pathfinder. Vatanen sang to it.

Le cimetière se trouvait à six cents mètres de son extrémité, mais le bruit des avions ne dérangerait guère les défunts — pour ce que peuvent en savoir des vivants n'ayant encore aucune expérience personnelle de la question.

He had his own world, this one, and it was fine to be here, living alone, in his own way. The hare ambled silently along the trail ahead of the skier, like a pathfinder. Vatanen sang to it.

Oberst Kemppainen ble aldeles rørt og erkjente at først nå hadde han fått en real og fortrolig venn. Han var ikke lenger alene, slik han hadde vært i går. – Jeg skal ikke gå så langt som å påstå at det er snakk om ny livslyst ... slett ikke. Men vi kunne da finne på noe. Vi er tross alt i live.

found out later that he lived alone, surrounded by books, both his own and other people's, and that as well as being a hired hunter of books he was an expert on Napoleon's battles. He could set out on a board, from memory, the exact positions of troops on the eve of Waterloo. A

one is never alone with a book nearby

One is never alone with a book nearby, don't you agree?...Every page reminds us of a day that has passed and makes us relive the emotions that filled it. Happy hours underlined in red pencil, dark ones in black...Where was I, then? What prince called me his friend, what beggar called me his brother?

Quien sólo se interesa por los libros no necesita a nadie, y eso me da miedo —

y él murmuraba amen al tiempo que ellos, para que no se sintieran tan solos cuando caían al suelo y morían. Pero sus ojos claros y fríos estaban atentos a las ondulantes filas de la caballería enemiga