Quotes About Solitude

O oposto de solidão não é companhia, é intimidade.

Mine's a free life, but it does get lonely sometimes.

A person gets used to being alone, but break it just for a day and you have to get used to it again, all over from the beginning.

It wasn't long before Jonathan Gull was off by himself again, far out at sea, hungry, happy, learning.

Juan gaviota pasó el resto de sus días solo, pero voló mucho más allá de los lejanos acantilados.

They got that way, Garraty had noticed. Complete withdrawal from everything and everyone around them. Everything but the road. They stared at the road with a kind of horrid fascination, as if it were a tightrope they had to walk over an endless, bottomless chasm

The dead are orphans. No company but the silence like a moth's wing.

Sometimes when he was in the country he would sleep in a barn and wake in the night and go out and look at the stars and there were so many, and he knew they were there before him, and they would be there after him. That was sort of awful and sort of wonderful.

Things hurt more when you were alone, that was all.

I thought about it for awhile, hiding it from the rest of my mind. But I didn't ruin my birthday by secretly thinking about it too hard

God-forsaken is beautiful, too.

Je reste des heures entières debout au même endroit, presque sans bouger (j'ai même vu le vent s'arrêter dans ma main)

I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there… I just kept getting smaller and smaller beside the pond, more and more unnoticed in the darkening summer grass until I disappeared into the 32 years that have passed since then…

I hate eating dinner alone. It's like being dead.

Invece di avere soltanto qualche chilometro e talvolta soltanto pochi centimetri tra un problema e l'altro, perché non incrementare la distanza? Sarebbe bello una volta tanto avere 47 chilometri tra un problema e l'altro e magari in 47 chilometri un po' di pace potrebbe spuntare come una giunchiglia in mezzo ai miei problemi.

Pascal said, "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

It's so dark, he thought, that I could sleep without closing my eyes; the night would be my eyelids--

The more people I am with, Dorrigo thought, the more alone I feel.

The lie was one they - children, doctors, nurses - all encouraged. The lie was that postponing death was life. That wicked lie had now imprisoned Francie in a solitude more absolute and perfect and terrifying than any prison cell.

The lie was that postponing death was life. That wicked lie had now imprisoned Francie in a solitude more absolute and perfect and terrifying than any prison cell.

The lie was one they - children, doctors, nurses - all encourage. The lie was that postponing death was life. That wicked lie had now imprisoned Francie in a solitude more absolute and perfect and terrifying than any prison cell.

One of the down-side factors to living alone is that you sometimes get overly absorbed with how exact segments of time are consumed, and can begin to feel a pleasure with life that is hopelessly tinged with longing.

to sit in the empty stands of a Florida ball park and hear the sounds of glove leather and chatter;

apropos of nothing.