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Quotes About Solitude

I was still trapped in that dark, gloomy dining room where I now imagined Nuria Monfort sitting alone, silently tidying up her pencils, her folders, and her memories, her eyes poisoned with tears
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Cualquiera que aspira a conservar su sano juicio necesidad de un lugar en el mundo en el que pueda y desee perderse. Ese lugar, el último refugio, es un pequeño anexo del alma al que, cuando el mundo naufraga en su absurda comedia, uno siempre puede correr a encerrarse y extraviar la llave.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
La vida es un camino que cada uno de nosotros debe de aprender a recorrer en solitario, rogando a Dios que le ayude a no extraviarse antes de llegar al final.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Šest dana tijekom kojih je ne?e vidjeti, ni dodirnuti, ?inili su mu se kao ?itava vje?nost.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them—a comfortable prison of his own design." "You say this as if you envied him." "There are worse prisons than words, Daniel.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
I left the lunatic sitting on his bed with his out-of-date newspaper and his up-to-date speeches.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The scenery is colorless and depressing. It looks as though life in Hell is very harsh. And lonely. Very, very lonely.
~ Carlton Mellick III
The stars are filming us for no one.
~ Carol Ann Duffy
I feel kind of bad for him," I said. "All he wants is to be left alone. I wish we could help him somehow." I sighed. "But we do have to check out his story." "I don't know how we can check out whether he was at Rainbow Lake," Ashley said. "Who would we ask--the fish?
~ Carol Ellis
WE ARE ALL AFRAID of being alone. To teenagers, the idea of being alone is almost as bad as the idea of dying, which at least has a certain romantic appeal.
~ Caroline Kennedy
Alone isn't a bad place to be, especially when it's the alternative to distrust and unhappiness, but
~ Carolyn Brown
The room was empty without him. No, the
~ Carolyn Brown
but it was still dark in the woods
~ Carolyn Brown
Just remember, when you're old and alone, money makes a really poor companion.
~ Carolyn Brown
She runs for the joy of it, because she can, her strides stretching to cover a dozen feet every time she leaps. Her mouth is open to taste the air, which is sharp with cold. The month turns, and the swelling moon paints the night sky silver, lighting up patches of snow scattered throughout the woods. Not yet full moon, a rare moment to be set free before her time, but the other half of her being has no reason to lock her away. She is alone, but she is free, and so she
~ Carrie Vaughn
Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
~ Carson McCullers
His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.
~ Carson McCullers
It was funny, too, how lonesome a person could be in a crowded house.
~ Carson McCullers
It looks to me like everything has just walked off and left me
~ Carson McCullers
She had always kept things to herself. That was one sure truth.
~ Carson McCullers
Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone. The silence of a firelit room when suddenly the clock stops ticking, the nervous shadows in an empty house — it is better to take in your mortal enemy than face the terror of living alone.
~ Carson McCullers
Lo terrible, en mi caso, es que durante mucho tiempo no he sido más que un Yo. Todo el mundo forma parte de un Nosotros, salvo yo. Si uno no forma parte de un Nosotros, se siente verdaderamente demasiado solo».
~ Carson McCullers
Each day was very much like any other day, because they were alone so much that nothing ever disturbed them.
~ Carson McCullers
She belonged to no club and was a member of nothing in the world.
~ Carson McCullers