Quotes About Solitude

I had absolutely no idea what I was about to face. I only knew that, for the first time in my life, I would be all alone.

Volqué el arca en la bolsa, la despensa en la alforja y el lastre de los malos pensamientos en el fondo del pozo y, aprovechándome de la noche como un ladrón, cogí el portante, enfilé la carretera y comencé a caminar —sin saber demasiado a dónde ir— campo adelante y tan seguido que, cuando amaneció y el cansancio que notaba en los huesos ya era mucho, quedaba el pueblo, cuando menos, tres leguas a mis espaldas.

Cientos y cientos de bachilleres caen en el íntimo, en el sublime y delicadísimo vicio solitario. Y algunas docenas de muchachas esperan -¿qué esperan, Dios mío?, ¿por qué las tienen tan engañadas? – con la mente llena de dorados sueños…

Better alone than badly accompanied.

He had no idea where he was, but, he thought with a small twinge of consolation, neither did anyone else.

Alone with myself The trees bend to caress me The shade hugs my heart.

It wasn't until later, when I was lying in bed, alone with my thoughts,that I felt uneasy feeling return. This is why you should never be alone with your thoughts, I thought. You thoughts are shitty company. They eat all the pizza and don't help clean up and they make you get all freaked out about the future.

When I am reading a poem, I rarely feel alone in the room. The poet and I are together. It's as if the poet wrote a secret diary years ago.

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

Colui a cui il destino impone di fare la sua strada deve percorrerla armato soltanto di speranza e con gli occhi bene aperti, consapevole della sua solitudine e del pericolo che gli abissi della solitudine rappresentano.

La soledad es peligrosa. Es adictiva. Una vez que te das cuenta de cuánta paz hay en ella, no quieres lidiar con la gente".

Sunset on the water ought to be a quiet and easy time, but I guess some people can't stand a little silence.

I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness.

His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community.

There are a few lonely places in this world, and the wastes of the great Alaskan Interior are the loneliest of them all.

Unlike the millions who casually masturbate in solitude while looking at girlie pictures in Playboy and similar magazines, the massage man preferred an accomplice, an attendant lady of respectable appearance who would help him reduce the guilt and loneliness of this most lonely act of love.

You were so busy trying to be my savior that you left me all alone.

It's quiet now. So quiet that can almost hear other people's dreams.

Stains are even worse when you're the only one who can see them.

I can't imagine what it would be like to have had her company in my head—the comfort that would've brought.

Sleep would be so welcome. A warm blanket of black to erase everything else. Sleep without dreams.

In the middle of L.A.'s sunny non-winter, I need to sit in a dark closet to feel right.

It's quiet now. So quiet that you can almost hear other people's dreams So quiet that you can almost hear me tell Gramps, Thank you.

A veces, sólo se puede sentir algo por su ausencia. Por el espacio vacío que deja atrás.