Quotes About Solitude

Smile and the world smiles with you, cry and you cry alone.

Thank God there are places with sounds that make me cry from beauty, not from pain.

Reading is an act of friendly isolation. When we are reading, we make ourselves unapproachable in a tactful way. Perhaps that is exactly what has interested painters for so long in the portrayal of readers: showing people in a state of deepest intimacy not intended for outsiders. If the viewer were to approach the reader in real life, this condition would immediately be threatened. So painting allows us to see what we actually cannot see, or see only at the price of destroying it.

Ä°nsanlar?n aras?nda yaln?z olmaktan daha korkunç bir ÅŸey yoktur.

She could be lively only in the midst of life; in isolation she dwindled to a shadow.

Yapacak, duyacak, görecek hiçbir ÅŸey yoktu, her yerde ve sürekli hiçlikle çevriliydi insan, boyuttan ve zamandan tümüyle yoksun, boÅŸlukta.

He lived one of those lives that seem otiose because they are not linked to any community of interest, because all the riches stored in them by a thousand separate valuable experiences will pass when their last breath is drawn, without anyone to inherit them.

One can run away from anything but oneself

He had no taste for his own company and avoided such an encounter as much as possible, for the last thing he wanted was to make close acquaintance with himself.

Sen, beni asla, asla tan?mayan, bir su birikintisinin yan?ndan geçercesine yan?mdan geçip giden, bir taÅŸa basarcas?na üstüme basan, hep, ama hep yoluna devam eden ve beni sonsuz bir bekleyiÅŸ içerisinde b?rakan sen, kimsin ki benim için?

soothing silence instead of an oppressive one.

Nur einsame Kinder können ganz ihre Leidenschaft zusammenhalten: die anderen zerschwätzen ihr Gefühl in Geselligkeit, schleifen es ab in Vertraulichkeiten, sie haben von Liebe viel gehört und gelesen und wissen, daß sie ein gemeinsames Schicksal ist.

Montaigne is the sworn enemy of all responsibility. He strives to dodge decisions. Solitary sage in a time of mass fanaticism, he seeks seclusion and flight.

Solitario como un astrónomo que en su observatorio contempla cada noche, por la diminuta abertura de su telescopio, las miríadas de estrellas, sus misteriosas evoluciones, su cambiante confusión, cómo desaparecen yvuelven a encenderse, Jakob Mendel miraba a través de sus gafas y desde aquella mesa cuadrada ese otro universo de los libros, que asimismo gira eternamente y renace transformado,aquel mundo sobre nuestro mundo.

I had no witness against me left but my own memory."..

Seuls les enfants solitaires peuvent contenir toute leur passion; les autres, à trop causer éventent leurs sentiments en public, les émoussent en vaines confidences.

Alors, dans l'obscurité j'ai pleuré de bonheur.

Sar?labilecekleri herhangi bir ÅŸeyin olduÄŸu hissetmek yaln?zlar için, kendi içine hapsolmuÅŸ insanlar için ne mucizevi bir ÅŸeydi.

Ils avaient fui les perils de la conversation pour le terrain plus rassurant des livres.

To be free of family and familiar surroundings.

There was nothing here to distract me from my thoughts, my delusions, my morbid recapitulations.And that was exactly what they intended – I was to retch and retch on my own thoughts until they choked me.

Sürekli bir ÅŸeyler yapmam gerekiyor. Yaln?zca bir ÅŸeyler yapt???mda bu huzursuzluk hâli geçiyor. O zaman korkmama gerek kalm?yor. Çünkü yaln?zl?k korkusu zehirden beterdir. Bu korkuyu duymaktansa çal??mak daha iyidir. Arkamda bir huzursuzluÄŸun beklediÄŸini hissettiÄŸimde beni yakalayamamas? için koÅŸar?m.

Nietzsche's own thoughts gathered around him and with which he was entrapped as by an impenetrable bell glass, a solitude wherein there were no flowers or colours or music or beasts or men, a solitude whence even God was excluded, the dead and petrified solitude of some primeval world which existed long ago or may come into being aeons hence.

frase de Escipión, que de sí mismo dijo que nunca estuvo más activo que cuando no tuvo nada que hacer y nunca menos solo que cuando estaba solo consigo mismo.