Quotes About Solitude

She doesn't really want to go far, she just wants the solitude, the public solitude, of the street; the un-company of passing strangers, no one embracing her, no one looking with compassion and wonder into her eyes, no one marvelling at her.

The book worm, the foreign-looking one with the dark, close set eyes an the Roman nose, who had never been sought after or cherished; who had always been left alone, to read.

It's the solitude that slays you. Maybe because you'd expected ruin to arrive in a grander and more romantic form.

If I were thinking clearly, Leonard, I would tell you that I wrestle alone in the dark, in the deep dark. And that only I can know, only I can understand my own condition. You live with the threat, you tell me you live with the threat of my extinction. Leonard, I live with it too.

He felt very lonely, yet there was a kind of pride in his loneliness.

Es gibt viele Arten von Einsamkeit, aber Momo erlebte eine, die wohl nur wenige Menschen kennengelernt haben, und die wenigsten mit solcher Gewalt.

There are many kinds of loneliness, but Momo experienced one that only very few people know of, and that even fewer have experienced to the extent that Momo did. She felt like she was imprisoned in a treasure trove filled with priceless riches that continued to grow in number, threatening to suffocate her.

He felt lonely. His solitude was thrown into relief by being observed.

Returning to the apartment, I feel a bitter tipsy pleasure at the extent to which my world has fallen apart.

Wherever you go, and whatever you do, the first thing you're going to see in the morning, and the last thing at night, is the inside of your own head. An unchanging landscape, a still photograph.

And sometimes, when a lot has happened in your life, much of it inexplicable, silence is what you need to say the most.

We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united in mutual love of isolation.

That the world forgets me is all I ask," Elric sighed.

and then quite suddenly I found that I had no rider, that I had no weight on my back, and that I was alone out in front of the squadron.

You know something, you never know what lonely is until you are really alone, alone all day, alone all night, with no one to talk to.

I was a bit of a loner, not because I wanted to be. I was just like that. Books became friends to me.

Death, I discovered that day, is not frightening, because it is utterly still.

If she were a writer she would collect her pencils and notebooks and favourite cat and write in bed. Strangers and lovers would never get past the locked door.

A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something that feeds him more than water. There is a plant he knows of near El Taj, whose heart, if one cuts it out, is replaced with a fluid containing herbal goodness. Every morning one can drink the liquid the amount of a missing heart.

Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert.

Here. Where I am anonymous and alone in a white room with no history and no parading. So I can make something unknown in the shape of this room. Where I am King of Corners.

A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something that feeds him more than water.

The Englishman left months ago, Hana, he's with the Bedouin or in some English garden with its phlox and shit.

She was secure in the miniature world she had built; the two other men seemed distant planets, each in his own sphere of memory and solitude.