Quotes About Solitude

Te puedes creer, querido, que no conozco ni diez calles de esta pequeña ciudad en la que viví dos años? Estaba dolida y quería estarlo

Bana gelince, ben art?k Tanr?'ya inanm?yorum ve ayin istemiyorum, ben yaln?zca sana inan?yorum, yaln?zca seni seviyorum ve yaln?zca sende biraz daha yaÅŸamaya devam etmek istiyorum ... ah, evet, sadece y?lda bir gün, ÅŸöyle sessiz mi sessiz, senin yan?nda nas?l yaÅŸad?ysam öyle...

Ich weiß, ich muß dann doch wieder allein sein. Und es gibt nichts Entsetzlicheres, als Alleinsein unter den Menschen.

No hay nada más terrible que estar sola cuando estás rodeada de gente.

Iss?z bir parkta karlar içinde Ar?yor geçmiÅŸi iki gölge.

wie ein Taucher sogar, der schon ahnt, dass das Seil nach der Außenwelt abgerissen ist und er nie zurückgeholt werden wird aus der lautlosen Tiefe.

Solo quien conoce las profundidades, conoce la vida completa. Solo el retroceso da al hombre toda su energía para avanzar. El genio creador necesita esta forzada soledad temporal para medir desde la lejanía de la exclusión el horizonte y la altura de su verdadera tarea.

All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.

I hadn't had a book in my hands for four months, and the mere idea of a book where I could see words printed one after another, lines, pages, leaves, a book in which I could pursue new, different, fresh thoughts to divert me, could take them into my brain, had something both intoxicating and stupefying about it.

La mia solitudine è dignitosa, la affronto a testa alta, ma se la guardo in faccia mi deride, mi ferisce fa ritornare tutte le solitudini del passato. E' così: ogni solitudine contiene tutte le solitudini vissute.

if only I had someone who belonged only to me, and didn't always have to go into other people's homes and share with them; I want someone for my very own.

I have always felt safest alone on the side of a hard-to-reach wall or a mountain. Although I understand that I could die in the mountains, I trust the hand of nature, and I know it will do me no harm. People seem to change and do confusing things. Places, on the other hand, I can count on.

When I say 'friends,' I use that term loosely, as I don't actually have any.

Do me a favor, friend, and if you can get to a window this evening, watch the sun set for me? "So

Last summer had meant lots of Sam Adams Summer Ale by herself on hot weekend days when it seemed like just her and the Dominican Day parade.

She backed away toward the door as, softly, too softly for anyone to hear, she joined in on "Don't ask where I'm going; just listen when I'm gone." She slipped out the door without anyone noticing.

Someone who is comfortable in their own company and can be alone without feeling unduly anxious, defensive or half-alive is experiencing solitude

Many people who find it hard to be alone blame or despise themselves (or know themselves so little they do not realise that they can't be alone but fill their lives with work, people, noise, booze or drugs).

The capacity to be comfortably alone flows from satisfying experiences of being with someone else. What's more, satisfying experiences of being with someone else fuel a continuing capacity to be alone, without feeling adrift or lonely.

The greater part of our lives is spent with ourselves, no matter where or with what other people we may live . . . our imagination is the only companion chained to us for the whole of existence.' Charlotte Wolff

It's lonely at midnight in the nuthouse.

In our solitariness... great depths are sometimes sounded. Truth hideth in company.

To tell the truth days are all the same size and words aren't much company.

Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.