Quotes About Solitude

Vivir es encontrarse náufrago entre las cosas

Quisiéramos hallar aquel cuya vida se fundiese íntegramente, se interpenetrase con la nuestra. Para ello hacemos los más varios intentos. Uno es la amistad. Pero el supremo entre ellos es lo que llamamos amor. El auténtico amor no es sino el intento de canjear dos soledades.

Man asks himself: what is this solitary thing that remains to me—my life, my disillusioned life? How has it come to being nothing but this? And the answer is the discovery of man's trajectory, of the dialectical series of his experiences, which, I repeat, though it might have been different, has been what it has been, and which must be known because it is... the transcendent reality.

Aquí me pongo a cantar Al compás de la vigüela Que al hombre que lo desvela Una pena estrordinaria, Como la ave solitaria Con el cantar se consuela.

O, in the solitude of those mountains I feel free, free as the air, like a light blasting unharnessed through space. A thousand cities, a thousand palaces I would give just for a corner of the Philippines where far away from man I could feel truly free!

Silence had blown its empty wind over Manila and everything seemed to sleep in the arms of nothingness.

Ah! ¿No es cierto, ángel de amor, que en esta apartada orilla más pura la luna brilla y se respira mejor?

Sabes lo que es quedarse a la orilla de uno mismo, contemplándose?

En realidad, no sé qué haría si de pronto, por algún motivo, tuviera que vivir solo. Si en mi cama sintiera, en vez de su tibieza, su ausencia; si no pudiera reclamarle un movimiento brusco que me despierta; si a media noche no pudiera impacientarme y decirle que se retire un poco, porque tengo calor, o en la madrugada, quedamente, apretando su mano, que se acerque.

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate,no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament.It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

I shall therefore retire into the Town, if I may make use of that Phrase, and get into the Crowd again as fast as I can, in order to be alone. I can there raise what Speculations I please upon others without being observed my self, and at the same time enjoy all the Advantages of Company with all the Privileges of Solitude.

I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.

Today, Aaron decided, he would begin to grieve in earnest. He would walk the lonely beach, mocked by gulls, uncaring, his every step a stately rebuke to the malign forces that had blighted his fate. His was the tragedy of a man who couldn't have his own way, and he intended to make known his anguish in the solemn solitude that only a stretch of sand, a suspiring sea, and a beetling cliff could provide.

You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don't know what was in the newspapers that morning... a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again.

The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.

The ship, a fragment detached from the earth, went on lonely and swift like a small planet.

Who knows what true loneliness is—not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. Now and then a fatal conjunction of events may lift the veil for an instant. For an instant only. No human being could bear a steady view of moral solitude without going mad.

We live as we dream - alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.

But his soul was mad. Being alone in the wilderness, it had looked within itself and, by heavens I tell you, it had gone mad.

How can you be lonely? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely.

Kahlil Gibran's wise advice: "Let there be spaces in your togetherness.