Quotes About Solitude

Uno no puede responder con nada a la ausencia.

En general la soledad no me aterra y en pequeñas dosis hasta me distiende: las presencias que me son caras me fatigan el corazón.

Si no soy sino un cuerpo, sólo un lugar al sol y el instante que mide mi suspiro, entonces heme aquí liberado de todas las inquietudes, los temores, las penas. Nada me conmueve, nada me importa. No estoy ligado sino a ese minuto que llena mi vida: ella sola es una presa tangible, una presencia. No existe sino la impresión del momento.

Mencionou cinco filmes que merecem ser vistos. Impossível. Houve tempo em que podia ir sozinha ao cinema, ou mesmo ao Teatro. É que não estava só. Havia em mim e à minha volta a sua presença. Agora, quando estou só, digo-me: - Estou só. - E tenho medo.

A woman on her own they think they can do anything how despicable people are when you're down they stamp on you. I kick back I keep my end up but a woman alone is spat on.

Ce n'est donc pas l'amitié qui brisera la solitude où l'homme s'est enfermé; il n'est jamais possible à un individu de partager les joies et les peines d'un autre, ni même de les comprendre. Les êtres sont impénétrables, les consciences sont incommunicables; dans l'amour, l'amitié, dans toutes les affections, chacun reste pour l'autre un mystérieux étranger.

Algunos días detestaba el mar; era monótono e infinito como la ausencia.

Sí yo mismo no fuera sino una cosa, nada en efecto me concerniría; si me encierro en mí mismo, el otro está también cerrado para mí; la existencia inerte de las cosas es separación y soledad.

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And so, quite unable to fulfil himself in solitude, man is incessantly in danger in his relations with his fellows: his life is a difficult enterprise with success never assured.

El otro, como otro, reviste fácilmente ese carácter maravilloso e inaccesible, pero él a solas consigo, experimenta para sí ese vacío que está en su corazón.

I feel that it is necessary and ordained that I should be alone, a stranger and an exile in relation to every human circle, without exception.

Preserve your solitude.

Society is the cave. The way out is solitude.

Every dream of friendship deserves to be shattered. It is not by chance that you have never been loved…. To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice.

Sólo pueden amarse quienes aceptan su posible distanciamiento, el espacio entre dos seres independientes que asumen sus propias soledades y que se acompañan mutuamente. Es la grieta entre dos soledades la que permite el acercamiento.

My dear man, there's nothing I'd like better than to be by myself occasionally... I suppose you expect me to sit here and dream delicately and satisfy my tempermentality while you wander in from the bathroom with lather all over your face and shout seen my brown pants?

Actually, most of those afflicted with the habit of traveling merely lie about its pleasures and profits. They do not travel to see anything, but to get away from themselves, which they never do, and away from rowing with their relatives--only to find new relatives with whom to row. They travel to escape thinking, to have something to do, just as they might play solitaire, work cross-word puzzles, look at the cinema, or busy themselves with any other dreadful activity.

lilo on the floor next to my bed was empty. I looked out of the window

Now, as I slowed down and Sabrina stepped away, I was faced with what I had been secretly running from: the death of my old life, as well as the fear of being all alone in this new one.

Above all, staring at my old bedroom ceiling, I feel safe. Cocooned from the world; wrapped up in cotton wool. No one can get me here. No one even knows I'm here. I won't get any nasty letters and I won't get any nasty phone calls and I won't get any nasty visitors. It's like a sanctuary. I feel as if I'm fifteen again, with nothing to worry about but my Homework. (And I haven't even got any of that.)

Silence is great. It's peaceful. It's something we all need, in this hectic modern life, silence.

I think talking to other people can bring its own unhelpful baggage. Sometimes you just need to talk to an entity. The void. Your God.

If you spend most of your time turned away from people, you get to know what they're doing without having to see it.