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Quotes About Solitude

It is an aristocratic feeling that nourishes the tendency to seclusion and solitude. All rascals are sociable, pitifully so. But that a human being is of a nobler kind first shows itself in the fact that he does not delight in others, but more and more prefers solitude to their company and then gradually, over the course of the years, comes to understand that, apart from rare exceptions, there is only one choice in the world, that between solitude and commonness.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Die Einsamkeit ist das Erbe aller außergewöhnlichen Seelen.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
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~ Arthur Schopenhauer
For the more a man has in himself, the less he will want from other people,—the less, indeed, other people can be to him. This is why a high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Cuanto más tiene uno en sí mismo, menos precisa de fuera y menos pueden significar los demás para él. De ahí que la excelencia de espíritu empuje a la insociabilidad. Es en la soledad donde cada uno es remitido a sí mismo, donde se muestra lo que tiene en sí mismo. La gente corriente tan sólo piensa en pasar el tiempo; quien posee algún talento, en aprovecharlo.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Hay que leer tan sólo cuando se seca la fuente de los propios pensamientos; lo cual sucede con frecuencia aun a las mejores cabezas.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Die allermeiste Gesellschaft ist so beschaffen, dass wer sie gegen die Einsamkeit vertauscht einen guten Handel macht.
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
How quickly self rises to the surface, and the instrument is ready to believe he is something more than an instrument! How sadly easy it is to make of the very service God entrusts us with a pedestal on which to display ourselves. But God will not share His glory with another, and therefore does He hide those who may be tempted to take some of it unto themselves. It is only by retiring from public view and getting alone with God that we can learn our own nothingness.
~ Arthur W. Pink
There are things that you can't do - like writing letters to a part of yourself. To your feet or hair. Or heart.
~ Arundhati Roy
Let's leave one alive so that it can be lonely.
~ Arundhati Roy
A quiet bubble floating on a sea of noise. (Estha)
~ Arundhati Roy
No matter how elaborate its charade, she recognized loneliness when she saw it.
~ Arundhati Roy
Silence hung in the air like secret loss.
~ Arundhati Roy
Duniya ke mehfilon se ukta gaya hoon ya Rab Kya lutf anjuman ka , jab dil hi bujh gaya ho Shorish se bhagta hoon, dil dhoondta hai mera Aisa sukoot jis pe taqreer bhi fida ho I am weary of worldly gatherings, O Lord What pleasure in them, when the light in my heart is gone? From the clamour of crowds I flee, my heart seeks The kind of silence that would mesmerize speech itself
~ Arundhati Roy
A quiet bubble floating on a sea of noise.
~ Arundhati Roy
No matter how elaborate its charade, she recognised loneliness when she saw it.
~ Arundhati Roy
Three Plagues of nursing home existence: boredom, loneliness, and helplessness.
~ Atul Gawande
Minutes passed in silence.
~ Atul Gawande
My wife used to say I was a loner, but I'm not. I just like my time alone," he told me. So when the tour guide said that the Florence Center had single rooms, "I said, 'You must be kidding!'" The tour had only begun and already he was sold.
~ Atul Gawande
alone. His condition deteriorated rapidly.
~ Atul Gawande
alone. "I think it is unlikely you have it
~ Atul Gawande
I left them to themselves.
~ Atul Gawande
Despair and isolation are my greatest internal enemies. I need to remember I am not alone, even when it feels that way. Now more than ever it is time to put my solitary ways behind me, even while protecting my solitude.
~ Audre Lorde
I feel trapped on a lonely star.
~ Audre Lorde