Quotes About Solitude

Namo ?jau p?s?ias , ži?r?damas, galvodamas. Aš steb?jausi savimi, kaip aš toks vienas gal?jau išaugti, kad man vis? šit? žmoni? ir viso šito gyvenimo nereikia. Ta?iau kartu taip skaudžiai ilg?jausi žmogaus. Nedaug - tik vieno, vieno vienintelio man užtekt?.

A meeting with nature means to me sometimes more than meeting with a person. It wakes up feelings, memories. Its arrows shoot deep, always on target

People don't expect too much from literature. They just want to know they're not alone with being confused.

I didn't think I was in a morbid mood, but it appears I am. My mind goes round and round trying to figure things out, but I always come back to the same two things: Loneliness and Death. Life ends before we figure anything out, most importantly how not to be lonely. Solitude is fine. But feeling like you have no one to love - abject lonliness - is not alright.

When he had gone, I lay in bed for a long time, listening to the voices of the choir at evensong. Outside, the darkness thickened and grew strange.

The only moments I have when I play that are worth anything to me are when I can blissfully ignore the people I am supposed to be entertaining. No me; no silly public to amuse; only the heart and the soul, the world, the birds, storms, dreams, sadness, heavenly serenity. Then I am an artist worthy of the name . . . . Until it happens, or if it doesn't happen, I am miserable.

The first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.

But the first lesson reading teaches is how to be alone.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

Without privacy there was no point in being an individual.

Every good writer I know needs to go into some deep, quiet place to do work that is fully imagined. And what the Internet brings is lots of vulgar data. It is the antithesis of the imagination. It leaves nothing to the imagination.

There's a hazardous sadness to the first sounds of someone else's work in the morning; it's as if stillness experiences pain in being broken.

Friendship's a fine thing but in the end we all walk alone.

All the lonely people.

Eighty-three years old. A lifetime of being a bachelor. This extended life of aloneness might have an effect on a man's character, might it not? Independence might have rusted into obstinacy.

He [Andrew Haswell Green] wanted to say, Don't go, but he still did not know how. To open himself up to a hard, hurtful truth again seemed the very worst of options. Some people are perhaps meant to live alone.

Jeho situaci jsem mu nezávid?l: být na sv?t? sám je n?kdy lepší, a ve válce obzvláš?.

In the car sometimes I'd just start balling my eyes out.

Sometimes there are hurts so deep that they exist in a country that has no spoken language, a place where all landscapes are blighted and no sun ever shines.

the saddest thing about being the only one left to tell a story is everybody who cares to listen is gone.

DURATION OF SILENCE

I am not sure," he said to the moon and the sea and his cigarette, "I am not at all sure how much I can take of this.

Yes, all the inhabitants of the store had left. But that didn't mean we were alone.

Ich für meinen Teil denke während einer Verfolgungsjagd gern nach. Keiner stört einen, man ist allein und all die Problemchen werden bedeutungslos. Das wichtigste Thema heißt natürlich: "Wie bleibe ich am Leben?", aber auch andere Dinge sieht man in neuem Licht, was zu ganz neuen und manchmal überraschenden Erkenntnissen führt.