Quotes About Solitude

Her face was lined with bitterness and her eyes looked glazed, tired of hating and weeping in solitude.

I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection of herself, an echo of solitude and loss. In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.

The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.

Sabien que aquell dia una llum s'apagava al món i que, a partir d'ara, tots estarien més sols, més buits.

Lo que mata es la soledad, los recuerdos son peores que las balas

Sono cresciuto in mezzo ai libri, facendomi amici invisibili tra le pagine polverose di cui ho ancora l'odore sulle mani.

While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.

Con el tiempo, la soledad se te mete dentro y no se va.

Caminó lentamente, despidiéndose de cada portal, de cada esquina, preguntándose se la trampa de tiempo sería cierta y algún día sólo sería capaz de recordar lo bueno, de olvidar la soledad que tantas veces le había perseguido en aquellas calles.

She had around her a burning aura of loneliness.

The most sincere pain is experienced alone. Alicia felt secretly relieved when Isaac took his infinite sadness to a corner to drown in it. The only pain she hadn't learned to tolerate was to see old people cry.

La soledad que desprendía aquella mujer quemaba

Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them—a comfortable prison of his own design

Julián thought he smiled the way people smile who have no friends—with gratitude.

Am hot?rât c? existenÈ›a mea va fi una a c?rÈ›ilor È™i a t?cerii.

Le interesa lo mismo que a usted. Le interesan los libros, la literatura, el olor de estos tesoros que tiene usted aquí y la promesa de romance y aventura de las novelas de a peseta. Le interesa espantar la soledad y no perder el tiempo en comprender que en este perro mundo nada vale un céntimo si no tenemos a alguien con quien compartirlo.

Le interessa sconfiggere la solitudine e non perdere tempo a capire che in questo schifo di mondo niente vale un centesimo se non abbiamo qualcuno con cui condividerlo.

Le podria decir a usted que es el corazon, pero lo que mata es la soledad

M-am gândit cât de mult îmi doream s? m? refugiez în privirea aceea fugar? care se temea c? e transparent?, goal?. M-am gândit la singur?tatea ce avea s? m? cuprind? în noaptea aceea, când aveam s? m? despart de ea, în lips? de alte trucuri sau poveÅŸti cu care s?-mi câÅŸtig compania ei. M-am gândit la cât de puÈ›ine aveam s?-i ofer ÅŸi cât de multe voiam de la ea.

we still repeat that walk to the breakwater at dawn, where we solve the world's problems.

Desde que no vendemos una escoba se pasa los días emparedado en la trastienda con ese libro egipcio de los muertos. -Es el libro de contabilidad - corregí.

there were no more ghosts there than those of absence and loss

he smiled the way people smile who have no friends - with gratitude.

Il dolore più sincero si vive soltanto da soli.