Quotes About Solitude

I can be by myself because I'm never lonely, I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.

yo puedo permitirme el lujo de abandonarme porque nunca estoy abandonado, estoy solo para poder vivir en una soledad poblada de pensamientos...

Kora?ao am, a nitko se nije pojavljivao,niti na putu, niti na prozorima, niti na balkonima, bilo je tiho, samo se u zraku ?uo šum vjetra koji je mirisao i kojega se dalo jesti poput sladoleda, poput nevidljivog tucanog snijega, bezmalo se mogao jesti žli?icom, imao sam dojam da, kada bih si uz njega uzeo pecivo ili komad kruha, da bih ga se mogao najesti skoro kao mlijeka.

Perché io mi posso permettere quel lusso di essere abbandonato, anche se io abbandonato non lo sono mai, io sono soltanto solo per poter vivere in una solitudine popolata di pensieri, perché io sono un po' uno spaccone dell'infinito e dell'eternità e l'infinito e l'eternità forse hanno un debole per le persone come me.

Bo widzisz, najgorsz? samotno?ci? nie jest ta, która otacza cz?owieka, ale ta pustka w nim samym.

Ale na ?wiecie by?o spokojnie, tylko w nim tak kipia? ?al.

Cz?owiek miewa w ?yciu takie chwile, ?e lubi otacza? si? przedmiotami, które przypominaj? smutek.

You don't have to be a great swimmer to appreciate the benefits of sensory solitude and the equilibrium the water can bring.

The water is the last place where people cannot text, call or find me," she says with a giggle.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Philosophy is the preparation for death - for leaving the cave of earthly, corporeal existence. And the preparation for death is a lonely and quiet activity - it is the activity of contemplation.

At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.

I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy.To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.

It snowed and snowed, the whole world over,Snow swept the world from end to end.A candle burned on the table;A candle burned.

Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently

He felt his solitude like the muffled echo of that of the victims. Well before the Interahamwe arrived, everyone was already alone, torn between anguish and absurd hopes.

Loneliness was also the young woman in black who came almost every day to the Polytechnic. She knew exactly which of all the tangled skeletons lying on the cold concrete were those of her little girl and her husband. She would go straight to one of the sixty-four doors of Murambi and stand in the middle of the room before two intertwined corpses: a man clutching a decapitated child against him. The young woman in black prayed in silence, and then left.

I don't ever want to hear that scream outside my head.

We read, I think, to repair our solitude, though pragmatically the better we read, the more solitary we become. 

Leggiamo per porre rimedio alla nostra solitudine, anche se poi, di fatto, la nostra solitudine cresce parallelamente all'aumentare e all'approfondirsi delle nostre letture. Non riuscirei proprio a considerare il leggere come un vizio, ma va concesso che non si tratta neppure di una virtù.

To read in the service of any ideology is not to read at all. The mind's dialogue with itself is not primarily a social reality. All that the Western canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude.

Gertrude Stein remarked that one writes for oneself and for strangers, which I translate as speaking both to myself (which is what great poetry teaches us how to do) and to those dissident readers around the world who in solitude instinctually reach out for quality in literature, disdaining the lemmings who devour J. K. Rowling and Stephen King as they race down the cliffs to intellectual suicide in the gray ocean of the Internet.

All that the Western Canon can bring one is the proper use of one's own solitude, that solitude whose final form is one's confrontation with one's own mortality.

only a few handfuls of students now enter Yale with an authentic passion for reading. You cannot teach someone to love great poetry if they come to you without such love. How can you teach solitude? Real reading is a lonely activity and does not teach anyone to become a better citizen.