Quotes About Solitude

Peace and quiet. That's one thing to be said for deserts. They give you a chance to get away from the everyday pressures of life. And when those everyday pressures consist of seven furious djinn and one apperplectic master magician, a few hindered thousand square miles of sand, rock, wind, and desolation is exactly what you need.

What's not to like for a boy who's running from the world? I'd say you're nicely sorted now.

Anyway, I find ghosts better company than most men.

You will be forced away from the warmth of people's homes to dwell by yourself in lonely places.

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands. But you do become very good at thinking yourself into endless loops of desperation in half the time it would take a normal person.

At some point, loneliness becomes less a condition than a habit.

Sometimes you don't need to talk things out. Sometimes, with the right person, things just need some time to percolate on their own, without the messy lunge and parry of discussion to hinder them.

The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom is largely a function of intelligence and self-awareness, not time on your hands.

People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.

poi, c'è la ferita che riguarda continuamente il cristiano nel mondo, quella della solitudine.

I was sleeping the other night, alone, thanks to the exterminator.

I don't like people," said Velvet. "... I only like horses.

In a strange way', she thought, 'these absences suit my nature though not my heart. I love him, I miss him, but I have time to put on my humanity again.

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.

La soledad más absoluta se encuentra en medio de las multitudes más inmensas

Cuando se almuerza absolutamente solo es cuando se puede decir con razón que se ha almorzado con un verdadero amigo

Ama sin apegarte. Solo quien sabe estar en soledad puede encontrar el orden y la creatividad que luego verterá en su compañero o compañera. En el amor conyugal hay que buscar una buena ecuación entre proximidad y lejanía.

Parecía resignado a la soledad, pero su herida seguía abierta, si bien ahora era una hemorragia interna.

Conocía demasiado bien la soledad. Y ahora sería más cruda que antes, pues tendría clavado como un aguijón el recuerdo de la dicha fugaz que había conocido.

He has always admired writers who each day begin a journey towards the unknown and who nevertheless spend all their time sitting in a room".

a la muerte le sienta bien la tristeza leve de una severa espera.

Nunca tuve suerte con las mujeres, soporto con resignación una penosa joroba, todos mis familiares más cercanos han muerto, soy un pobre solitario que trabaja en una oficina pavorosa. Por lo demás, soy feliz. »