Quotes About Solitude

Never less alone than when alone.

The one red leaf, the last of its clan,That dances as often as dance it can.

Alone, alone, all, all alone;Alone on a wide, wide sea.

Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows,Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean.

No Voice; but oh! the silence sank like music on my heart.

I lowered myself into an armchair. I was enveloped in a cloud of dust. All that remained of my life was in my lap. I sat for a time thus, as still as the mute objects that surrounded me. How little it all meant, in the end.

the solace of minutia

We must pass through acute loneliness to learn that we are not alone.

To relieve ourselves of open-ended narrative, we read into the winter stars all evening. There are just stars and stars and stars.

From half-dark to half-dark, I read autumn poems in spring. Buson writes about stepping on his dead wife's comb in their dark bedroom. In fact, she outlived him by thirty-one years. The chill from that comb, and the snap of eros and solitude and imagining, all in flower.

She was alone like a cat, like an owl, as if she walked unobserved, out of her human life.

edge of town all graveyard and the sound of waves

Yo mismo había defendido que la unión máxima entre dos personas llega cuando son capaces de pasar una tarde sin dirigirse la palabra. La pura compañía en silencio.

Maka pada suatu pagi hari ia ingin sekali menangis sambil berjalan tunduk sepanjang lorong itu. Ia ingin pagi itu hujan turun rintik-rintik dan lorong sepi agar ia bisa berjalan sendiri saja sambil menangis dan tak ada orang bertanya kenapa. Ia tidak ingin menjerit-jerit berteriak-teriak mengamuk memecahkan cermin membakar tempat tidur. Ia hanya ingin menangis lirih saja sambil berjalan sendiri dalam hujan rintik-rintik di lorong sepi pada suatu pagi.

barangkali hidup adalah doa yang panjang, dan sunyi adalah minuman keras. ia merasa Tuhan sedang memandangnya dengan curiga; ia pun bergegas.

Kita berdua saja duduk, Aku memesan ilalang panjang dan bunga rumput, Kau entah memesan apa, Aku memesan batu ditengah sungai terjal yang deras, Kau entah memesan apa, Tapi kita berdua saja duduk,

JARAK dan Adam turun di hutan-hutan mengabur dalam dongengan dan kita tiba-tiba di sini tengadah ke langit; kosong sepi

The moon is set and the Pleiades; Middle of the night, time passes by, I lie alone.

Tonight I've watched the moon and then the Pleiades go down The night is now half gone; youth goes; I am in bed alone

Kuu laskenut ja Seulaset On keskiyö, minun aikani on ohi Nukun yksin

What I'm saying is, you're a turned-inward soul; it's the way you cope with the hard things in life. You hide away.

Elizabeth Middleton, twenty-nine years old and unmarried, overly educated and excessively rational, knowing right from wrong and fancy from fact, woke in a nest of marten and fox pelts to the sight of an eagle circling overhead, and saw at once that it could not be far to Paradise.

There's no need to whisper," Elizabeth told her now. "You could sing at the top of your voices and no one would hear you out here on the water." But the women smiled at her suggestion in surprise and unease, as if she had told them that they could fly.

People had let us down. People had broken our hearts. We liked books and animals and messy rooms full of things that weren't people.