Quotes About Solitude

there are valleys with deep woods that no axe has ever cut.

porque quien se distancia de la compañía de los vivos invariablemente frecuenta la compañía de cosas que no tienen vida...

And because mere walls and windows must soon drive to madness a man who dreams and reads much

I was glad that all the street-lights were turned off, as is often the custom on strongly moonlit nights in unprosperous rural regions.

O quanto mais se afastava do mundo ao redor, mais exuberantes tornavam-se os sonhos;

A live-in domestic worker: You are never sure that your soul is your own except when you are out of the house.

There are few things that fill the soul of man with greater disappointment than to wake up when everybody else is asleep, especially if it happens to be really early in the morning. Not before one is awake does one realize how far one's dreams have transcended reality.

Ako pomislim što je pakao - to je kad si sam zauvijek u sobi 101 i nemaš što ?itati osim njegovih (Orwellovih) knjiga.

Elle vivait seule et travaillait plus dur que quiconque, évitait les contagions petites-bourgeoises: le doute de soi, le mépris des études, l'ennui.

Thinking, existentially speaking, is a solitary but not a lonely business; solitude is that human situation in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

What are we "doing" when we do nothing but think? Where are we when we, normally always surrounded by our fellow men, are together with no one but ourselves?

In both instances, men have become entirely private, that is, they have been deprived of seeing and hearing others, of being seen and being heard by them. They are all imprisoned in the subjectivity of their own singular experience, which does not cease to be singular if the same experience is multiplied innumerable times. The end of the common world has come when it is seen only under one aspect and is permitted to present itself in only one perspective.

Humanity is never acquired in solitude, and never by giving one's work to the public. It can be achieved only by one who has thrown his life and his person into the 'venture of the public realm.

Loneliness is not solitude. Solitude requires being alone whereas loneliness shows itself most sharply in company with others.

La dicotomía entre contemplar la verdad en soledad y apartamiento y quedar atrapado en las relaciones y relatividades de los asuntos humanos se convirtió en algo indiscutible para la tradición del pensamiento político.

The Harelip had taken off her heavy shawl and draped it over a headstone. The grave was tilted and covered with moss, the name worn away by the weather. The person underneath had been forgotten and was no longer mourned by the world. But for a moment, Ren thought, the small black slate looked warmed, and grateful for being chosen.

Then he would cry, but what nobody knows nobody cares for; so he would cry till he was tired, and then fall asleep; and while we are asleep we can feel neither hunger nor thirst. Ah, yes; sleep is a capital invention.

This was the last evening that she should breathe the same air with him or gaze on the starry sky and the deep sea. An eternal night, without a thought or a dream, awaited her.

alone, said the mother, he is

but every home is its own island with its own secrets.

There is silence, and then there is rural silence, silence you could feel and reach out and touch, silence with texture and distance.

Certain problems cannot be solved if you are constantly entertained and distracted.

Sitting for an hour without reading material meant he had to think.

maybe it was because the lonely can sometimes sense the lonely.