Quotes About Solitude

Cada individuo es un compañero de desconsuelo

Somos complicidad entre dos soledades

M-am plictisit de orice form? de agitaÅ£ie ÅŸi m-am convins c? toate nepl?cerile în via?? vin din participarea la un grup oarecare.Dac? ÅŸtiam lucrurile acestea demult,ast?zi eram mult mai înaintat.A trage consecinÅ£ele prostiilor altora e cea mai absurd? tragedie ce se poate îndura.

One grasps incomparably more things in boredom than by labor, effort being the mortal enemy in meditation.

Y es que no puedo hablar de los más profundo si no es a solas con alguien: ese momento en el que dos soledades pueden intentar comunicarse.

Ultima nostalgie: a te duce la fund cu soarele

After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

The more we frequent men, the blacker our thoughts; and when, to clarify them, we return to our solitude, we find there the shadow they have cast.

What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself.

I was alone in that cemetery overlooking the village when a pregnant woman came in. I left at once, in order not to look at this corpse-bearer at close range, nor to ruminate upon the contrast between an aggressive womb and the time-worn tombs -- between a false promise and the end of promises.

The cynicism of utter solitude is a calvary relieved by insolence.

The only moments I think of with relief are those when I sought to be nothing for anyone, when I blushed at the notion of leaving the slightest trace in the memory of a single human being...

What right have we to be annoyed by someone who calls us a monster? The monster is unique by definition, and solitude, even the solitude of infamy, supposes something positive, a peculiar election, but undeniably an election.

By a certain age, we should change names and hide out somewhere, lost to the world, in no danger of seeing friends or enemies again, leading the peaceful life of an overworked malefactor.

The most effective way to avoid dejection, motivated or gratuitous, is to take a dictionary, preferably of a language you scarcely know, and to look up word after word in it, making sure they are the kind you will never use.

Secondo me l'atto di scrivere è proprio questo, dico sul serio: un atto di immensa solitudine. Lo scrittore non ha senso se non in queste condizioni. Quello che fai dopo è prostituzione. Ma non appena accetti di esistere, devi accettare la prostituzione. Per me chiunque non si suicidi è in qualche modo uno che si prostituisce.

A patrimony all our own: the hours when we have nothing... It is they that form us, that individualize us, that make us dissimilar.

We have the more hold over this world the further we withdraw from it, the less we adhere to it.

I draw the curtains, and I wait. Actually, I am not waiting for anything, I am merely making myself absent. Scoured, if only for a few minutes, of the impurities which dim and clog the mind, I accede to a state of consciousness from which the self is evacuated, And I am as soothed as if I were resting outside the universe.

If the expression "metaphysical exile" had no meaning, my existence alone would afford it one.

The human being delivered to himself, without any partiality for elegance, is a monster.

A patrimony all our own: the hours when we have done nothing. . . . It is they that form us, that individualize us, that make us dissimilar.

All twilights are on my side.

Did they relish their role as undesirables? Did they seek to be alone on earth in principle?