Quotes About Solitude

There's all the kids at home, and my mother and brother. And the men I pick up. But you live alone anyhow, don't you? It ain't people that count. It's having someone you really like.

As he reached the door of the chapel and turned back for a last look, he saw that the Virgin too was sad and lonely; the most alone human being God ever put on earth.

I'm never less alone than when alone. And he sighed, for he knew himself to be a victim of his own character.

some shadowy haven back in

There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save.

Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter.

And his idea of solid comfort was to be left in utter solitude for two or three hours.

We face eternity now. We have no universe left, no outside phenomena, no emotions, no passions. Nothing but ourselves and thought. We face an eternity of introspection, when all through history we have never known what to do with ourselves on a rainy Sunday.

Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed.

We of Solaria alone learned how life was to be lived. We did not herd and flock like animals, as they did on Earth, as they did on other worlds, as they did even on the other Spacer worlds. We lived each alone, with robots to help us, viewing each other electronically as often as we wished, but coming within natural sight of one another only rarely.

My feeling is that as far as creativity is concerned, isolation is required.

La última vez que salí al aire libre fue hace tres años.

Ideally there should be no detectable connection between any two Observers, so that the loss of one would not entail the loss of any other.

But it was Paradise in one way," said Steiner at last. "How?" "All the time we were there the woman did not speak.

I don't bother with the outside myself. The last time I was in the open was three years ago. You see it once, you know and that's all there is to it.

My mother has a saying: 'One is none.

I was a romantic and sentimental creature, with a tendency towards solitude.

He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.

January 8 has been a lucky day for me. I have started all my books on that day, and all of them have been well received by the readers. I write eight to ten hours a day until I have a first draft, then I can relax a little. I am very disciplined. I write in silence and solitude. I light a candle to call inspiration and the muses, and I surround myself with pictures of the people I love, dead and alive.

era apenas la suma de dos soledades y de muchas ausencias.

Que hay al otro lado de la vida?¿Es solo noche silenciosa y soledad? ¿Que queda cuando no hay deseos, recuerdos ni esperanzas? ¿Que hay en la muerte? Si pudiera permanecer inmovil, sin hablar ni pensar, sin suplicar, sin llorar, recordar o esperar, si pudiera sumergirme en el silencio mas completo, tal vez entonces pudiera oirte, hija.

Se encerraba en su habitación a escuchar sus sinfonías predilectas y deleitarse en su propia tristeza

Tal vez se sentía un poco sola o le pareció que era una oportunidad de hacer el amor sin preguntas...

La tristeza se manifestaba en las noches en vela, la ropa oscura, el deseo de vivir en una cueva de anacoreta y la ausencia de inspiración.