Quotes About Solitude

In a society obsessed with coupling (turn on the radio and try to find a song that's not about true love—getting it, wanting it, losing it, getting it back), the solitary acts as a contemporary court jester, telling truths about our communities that those certified by the laws of state and church are unable to perceive or unwilling to speak aloud.

How many relationships endure not from love but because one or both partners fear solitude more than they fear mayhem?

The solitary traveler occupies a place of openness that becomes a place of radical empowerment, because learning begins in letting go, becoming vulnerable, feeling awkward and stupid, losing the self to find the self.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

I have the impression that we are the last people on Earth. - It wouldn't be so bad. We would have all the wine of the world to ourselves.

Mam wra?enie, ?e jeste?my ostatnimi lud?mi na Ziemi. - To nie by?oby takie z?e. Mieliby?my dla siebie ca?e wino ?wiata.

I could not describe my loneliness. For the first time, I grasped that I was truly on my own. I could depend on no one. There was no one to share my struggles and hopes.

For me it is sufficient to have a corner by my hearth, a book and a friend, and a nap undisturbed by creditors or grief.

Palabras. No hay manera de quitárselas de encima. No le dejan a una estar verdaderamente sola.

La desesperanza y la soledad no se comparten en la literatura con una multitud de otros seres, porque no existe, no existirá, el personaje masivo

There's nothing like taking a crap in the woods.

Nonetheless innuendo and imperfectly definable actions hover over the actions of the hermit.

If you don't have a date Celebrate Go out and sit on the lawn And do nothing 'Cause it's just what you must do Nobody does it anymore.

Sometimes he'd get annoyed at it, want to be left alone, wished he'd gone skateboarding, but mostly not.

I with they'd stop thinking that I wanted any extra man", she said, and the cat arched ever so slightly and slept on.

My heart is its own fierce country where no one else is welcome.

Cuando se está allí dentro, una imagina cosas grandiosas sobre el mundo, y cuando sale, a veces desearía volver a oír el sonido de la campana.

On a bench a toad kept him company: "A slaughterhouse aesthetic must exist.

La vida para mí se hacía demasiado larga. La literatura, por sí sola, no me distraía.

I am familiar with the impatience we feel when forced to suspend the enchantment of solitude.

I think Mr. Wilson will have to be the rest of the way alone.

There Laura spent many happy hours, supposed to be picking fruit for jam, but for the better part of the time reading or dreaming. One corner, overhung by a Samson tree and walled in with bushes and flowers, she called her 'green study'.

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

Personne n'entend ceux qui disent vouloir être seuls. La volonté de solitude, c'est forcément une pulsion morbide.