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Quotes About Solitude

Then I felt up silence. Then silence and I went all the way.
~ Bob Hicok
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.
~ Bohumil Hrabal
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
~ Booker T. Washington
Still more than by the communion of souls, they were united by the abyss that separated them from the rest of the world.
~ Boris Pasternak
Every herd is a refuge for giftlessness, whether it's a faith in Soloviev, or Kant, or Marx. Only the solitary seek the truth, and they break with all those who don't love it sufficiently.
~ Boris Pasternak
What must one be, to rave year after year with delirious feverishness about nonexistent, long-extinct themes, and to know nothing, to see nothing around one!
~ Boris Pasternak
para buscar a verdade é necessário estar só e romper com todos os que não a amam suficientemente.
~ Boris Pasternak
Solamente los solitarios buscan la verdad y rompen con quien no la ame lo bastante.
~ Boris Pasternak
Ne pišem svoje biografije. Z njo se ukvarjam, ko mi je potrebna za tujo.
~ Boris Pasternak
AÈ™ vrea s? m? retrag într-o gutuie. Ar mirosi frumos acolo. ?i, pe urm?, acolo aÈ™ fi liniÈ™tit.
~ Boris Vian
Me acerco a ella, aparto a un lado el arco roto y cojo sus manos entre las mías. Pero cuando me inclino para besarla en la frente, me doy cuenta de que lo había entendido mal. No es que se identifique con lo perdido. Nora Hartson se identifica con lo destruido. Por eso puede entrar en una sala llena de gente y descubrir a la única persona que está sola. Por eso me encontró a mí. Reconoció la herida, se reconoció a sí misma.
~ Brad Meltzer
Ebben? Ne andrò lontana" from Alfredo Catalani's La Wally
~ Brad Thor
Sleep has no place it can call its own.
~ Bram Stoker
You must not be alone; for to be alone is to be full of fears amd alarms.
~ Bram Stoker
I love the shade and the shadow, and would be alone with my thoughts when I may.
~ Bram Stoker
Alone with the dead, I dare not go out!
~ Bram Stoker
You must not be alone, for to be alone is to be full of fears and alarms.
~ Bram Stoker
If you could have looked into my heart then when I want to laugh, if you could have done so when the laugh arrived, if you could do so now, when King Laugh have pack up his crown, and all that is to him, for he go far, far away from me, and for a long, long time, maybe you would perhaps pity me the most of all.
~ Bram Stoker
July.--I am anxious, and it soothes me to express myself here. It is like whispering to one's self and listening at the same time.
~ Bram Stoker
Within, stood a tall old man, clean-shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
~ Bram Stoker
Despair has its own calm.
~ Bram Stoker
She lived quite alone and whether the fault was hers or whether the fault was theirs I do not know. And a great deal of time went by and she did not speak to a living soul and a great wind of madness howled through her and overturned all her languages. And she forgot Italian, forgot English, forgot Latin, forgot Basque, forgot Welsh, forgot every thing in the world except Cat – and that, it is said, she spoke marvellously well.
~ Susanna Clarke
If I leave, then the House will have no Inhabitant and how will I bear the thought of it Empty?
~ Susanna Clarke
Late in the afternoon we returned to the First Vestibule. Just before we parted Raphael said, 'I love the quiet here. No people!' She said the last part as if it were the greatest advantage of all. 'Don't you like the people in your own Halls?' I asked, puzzled. 'I like them,' she said, with no very great enthusiasm. 'Mostly I like them. Some of them. I don't always get them. They don't always get me.
~ Susanna Clarke