Quotes About Solitude

When a woman thinks alone, she thinks evil.

Few places favor meditation more than the desert

We head out into space, ready for anything, which is to say, for solitude, arduous work, self-sacrifice, and death. Out of modesty we don't say it aloud, but from time to time we think about how magnificent we are. In the meantime—in the meantime, we're not trying to conquer the universe; all we want is to expand Earth to its limits.

Kris," Harey whispered even more softly than before. I felt rather than heard her coming noiselessly up to me, and I pretended I hadn't noticed. At that moment I wanted to be alone. I had to be alone. I still hadn't found strength inside myself. I'd reached no decision, no resolution. As I stared at the darkening sky, at the stars that were only a spectral shadow of terrestrial stars, I stood there motionless; in the emptiness that was gradually

I stood, or rather hung suspended, in a bed of air, all of one piece with my metal shell.

Si uno busca tranquilidad, silencio y serenidad, que no lo busque en su vida ya que encontrará todo y más en el cementerio.

We're not searching for anything except people. We have no need of other worlds. We need mirrors. We don't know what to do with other worlds. A single world, our own, suffices us; but we can't accept it for what it is.

Salimos al cosmos preparados para todo, es decir: para la soledad, la lucha, el martirio y la muerte. La modestia nos impide decirlo en vos alta, pero a veces pensamos, de nosotros mismos, que somos maravillosos - Solaris

Sì, forse la vita è questo. Si procede tra normalità e paura, e si aspetta ogni volta di tornare alla nostra dimora, di trovare un po' di quiete, un rifugio. Magari salendo le scale di casa verremo presi dall'angoscia, avvertendo che il dolore ci ha seguito fino lì. Comunque sia, è un inferno che conosci. Ed è meglio di quella nebbia spietata, meglio che non vedere nulla, meglio della solitudine dei nostri passi.

Il vero coraggio è quando non vedi nessuno vicino a te. Allora devi partire da solo. E poi magari ti volti indietro e c'è qualcuno, in mezzo agli alberi, sulla cima di una montagna, al di là del fiume. E capisci che sta camminando al tuo fianco.

La vita di un puntuale è un inferno di solitudini immeritate. (La vida del puntual es un infierno de soledades inmerecidas)

Lei vaga in una grande stanza con una porta in fondo, l'uscita dalla sua solitudine. Qualche volta vede la porta ma fa finta di niente, continua a vagare e lamentarsi a dire a se steso, starò sempre solo. Io invece vago in una stanza senza porte. Posso tutt'al più sognare una porta.

Relationship Time to Aloneness. Having a companion fixes you in time and that of the present, but when the quality of aloneness settles down, past, present and future all flow together. A memory, a present event, and a forecast all equally present.

On the whole, Flora liked it better when they were silent, though it did rather give her the feeling that she was acting in one of the less cheerful German highbrow films.

By the way, I adore my bedroom, but do you think I could have the curtains washed? I believe they are red; and I should so like to make sure.' Judith had sunk into a reverie. 'Curtains?' she asked, vacantly, lifting her magnificent head. 'Child, child, it is many years since such trifles broke across the web of my solitude'.

I had no one to hold. What if this was my life, attending weddings, sitting in pews, listening to I do's, perpetually wishing for someone to share my life with? Where the fuck was the alcohol?

Oh good, everything was back to normal - I was talking to myself again.

I still love to love my friends, but I punctuate those moments with solitude.

I cannot help but see the void in which I am standing as a metaphor for emptiness: the absence of compulsive reactivity, a precondition for the unimpeded space of paths that allow human flourishing. The unadorned simplicity of this rock-cut shrine evokes the Buddha's dharma before it mutated into dogma. This is nirvana inscribed in stone. Until the idea of emptiness was hijacked by metaphysicians, it was just another way of talking about solitude.

Not only are we inescapably alone in the realms of our private thoughts, perceptions and feelings, but we are also, paradoxically, inescapably together in a world with others.

Loneliness is not only positively characterized by a certain degree of isolation, but is negatively characterized by a deficiency of participation.

Solitude is good for great minds but bad for small ones. It troubles brains that it does not illuminate." Yet Hugo was unable to go as far as his older English contemporary William Wordsworth, for whom solitude was a "bliss" that filled the heart with joy. Largely avoiding its extremes of hell and bliss, here I will explore the middle ground of solitude, which I consider a site of autonomy, wonder, contemplation, imagination, inspiration, and care.

ten years of whorehouse joy I'm alone now in the mountains the pines are like a jail the wind scratches my skin Ikky

Then, I turned around and walked to my room and closed my door and put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.