Quotes About Solitude

Out here on the perimeter, there are no stars.

Lì, sotto le cupe luci fluorescenti del mio minuscolo monolocale, non c'era modo di sfuggire alla verità. Nella vita reale, non ero altro che un eremita asociale. Un recluso. Un nerd con una carnagione cadaverica e un'ossessione per la cultura pop. Ero soltanto un'altra anima perduta, triste, solitaria, che sprecava la sua vita su un videogioco osannato da tutti.

Salir es algo que está muy sobrevalorado. Almanaque de Anorak, capítulo 17, versículo 32

Getting outside is highly overrated.

If there was a bright center to the universe, I was on the planet it was farthest from.

Salir es algo que está muy sobrevalorado. Almanaque de Anorak

Going outside is highly overrated.

You and me, we've made a separate peace.

Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.

It was like saying good-bye to a statue. After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.

The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits.

Lo más impresionante de aquellos días, y más todavía de aquellas noches, era la soledad, el profundo sentimiento de soledad, de aislamiento, de saberse sin ningún habitante a quién sabe cuántos kilómetros a la redonda;

Los monos cantaban cerca de la casa en la madrugada, y un poco más tristes al atardecer, y eso contribuía a que se acentuara más la sensación de la soledad y el misterio, y la emoción de la vida salvaje.

Wrapped in a police blanket, I watched the rain and smoked one black cigarette after another...

The death of the entrepreneur is solitude.

Belief in these solitary men springs from a longing for a fraternity without name, for a deeper spiritual relationship than is possible between human beings.

These men did not give the impression that they considered the solitude to be a necessary evil of their land. They intimate with it and loved it.

What is the meaning of the immense silence that surrounds the dead?

Aún con todas sus imperfecciones, una de las grandes ideas del hombre ha sido siempre la de retirarse a una celda para ponerse allí, como centinela solitario

I had often doubted; now I was convinced: there were still noble beings among us in whose hearts knowledge of the higher order was preserved and perpetuated. A lofty example enjoins us to follow, and I swore before this head that for all the future I would cast my lot with the solitary and free rather than the triumphant and servile.

Il mio lutto per lui è una pozza d'acqua marina prosciugata. Tra gli scogli resta il sale asciutto, dei singhiozzi a secco.

En mer il n'y a pas de tavernes.

In ogni specie sono i solitari a tentare esperienze nuove. Sono una quota sperimentale che va alla deriva. Dietro di loro la traccia aperta si richiude.

I hesitate, I suppose it is only from a general dread of company. We all of us wish for it, in our solitude, but on the eve of a great visit, we shudder.