Quotes About Solitude

How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky?

He was born to be lonely, that's what he knew for certain.

Talvolta è davvero tutto troppo rumoroso.

How do you keep safe when your whole day is as wide and empty as the sky? Anything could happen.

There was just me, left wretched in my childhood bed.

In New York it's not three or four A.M. that's the quiet time—there are too many bar stragglers, calling out to each other as they collapse into taxis, yelping into their cell phones as they frantically smoke that one last cigarette before bed. Five A.M., that's the best time, when the clicking of your heels on the sidewalk sounds illicit. All the people have been put away in their boxes, and you have the whole place to yourself.

Sometimes the answer is at the bottom of a bottle.

and someone was talking. I wanted to stop thinking

Cómo te mantienes a salvo cuando tu día entero es tan inmenso y vacío como el cielo?

I've thought about you a lot over these years, been wondering about you. That's what you do in here … think and wonder. Every once in a while someone'll write me about you. But it's not the same.

I stay home on Friday night with a bottle of wine and make myself an extravagant meal and tell myself, This is perfect, as if I'm the one dating me.

A molta gente manca questo dono, la capacità di capire quando deve levarsi dai coglioni. Alla gente piace parlare, e io non sono mai stato un gran chiacchierone. Porto avanti un monologo interiore, ma spesso le parole non arrivano alle labbra. Com'è carina lei oggi, posso pensare, ma per qualche motivo non lo dico ad alta voce. Mia madre parlava, mia sorella parla. Crescendo, mi sono abituato ad ascoltare. Dunque starmene seduto sul divano da solo, in silenzio, mi pareva un lusso.

That's what he learned from his life so far: always aim smaller. He was born to be lonely, that's what he knew for certain

Sometimes it is all too loud.           T

Flotaré un rato, unas minivacaciones alejada de mi cerebro de arpía.

Ben saw the inside of that fridge, which had been packed with food the month before, and now just had beer and a big jar with one single pickle floating in it like a turd.

If a man speaks in the heart of a forest and no woman is there to hear him, is he still wrong?

En demasía lo bueno se hace malo, la píldora veneno y vicio la caricia; sabes de todo un poco y vas al cine, sabes de todo mucho y te suicidas. Mucha vida (cien años) es la muerte —se hace malo lo bueno en demasía—. La soledad, es ese gran espejo donde acabas por verte monstruoso; el silencio es la tuerca en el oído que se te va ajustando al agujero, demasiado silencio es igual que una bomba y demasiado amor es igual que un entierro.

El astronauta desde la luna dijo: -Todo va OK lo que apenas se puede aguantar es este silencio.

I was the fifth wheel nobody wanted.

We must learn to soundproof the heart against the intruding noises of the public world in order to hear what God has to say.

Although he wasn't trying to make a uniquely Christian point, I nevertheless find the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson quite provocative. "It is easy in the world," he wrote, "to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

As the late afternoon sun shone in Shaw's face and a soft flower-scented wind cooled him, his unhappiness turned to a detachment that was not at all unpleasant. He was utterly alone in the world. This knowledge thrilled him.

I am alone in my study. I have already put away Julian's papers. The thing is finished. The world Julian wanted to preserve and restore is gone... but I shall not write forever, for who can know the future? Meanwhile, the barbarians are at the gate. Yet when they breach the wall, they will find nothing of value to seize, only empty relics. The spirit of what we were has fled. So be it.