Quotes About Solitude

el dolor es un camino solitario.

Aprendió a masticar sus penas sola y con dignidad, convencida de que a nadie le importan los problemas ajenos y que los dolores callados acaban por diluirse. Había

I need nothing, he told himself with the cunning pride of those with a calling for solitude.

My granddaughter once asked me how I managed to live alone for so long far removed from civilization. The truth is I don't know. But it must have been easier for me than for most people, because I've never been particularly sociable; I have few friends and I don't enjoy parties or festivities. I'm much happier when I'm alone. At

El sentimiento de soledad arrastrado desde la infancia se hizo aún más agudo, pero me consolaba la vaga esperanza de estar marcada por un destino especial que se me revelaría algún día.

Autumn of the Patriarch

Se había acostumbrado a su espacio, su silencio y su soledad; había concluido que le costaría mucho compartir su cama, su baño y su ropero y que ningún hombre podía satisfacer todas sus necesidades.

No se preguntaba por qué rehuía el amor, ya que la respuesta le parecía obvia: era su ineludible penitencia. Con el tiempo se había acostumbrado a sus hábitos de monje y a ese silencio interno de los que viven y duermen solos.

He had had his mouth washed out with soap so often that he stopped calling Rosette his sister, but not enough to make him stop loving her with that terrible, possessive, absolute love that solitary children give.

Porque no soy una persona sociable, no tengo muchos amigos ni me gustan las fiestas o el bochinche, por el contrario, me siento mejor solo.

Era una criatura romántica y sentimental, con tendencia a la soledad, de pocas amigas, capaz de emocionarse hasta las lágrimas cuando florecían las rosas en el jardín

Alma was so solitary a person that she had never realized how lonely she was.

To see my country with the heart, one must read Pablo Neruda, the national poet who in his verses immortalized the imposing landscapes, the aromas and dawns, the tenacious rain and dignified poverty, the stoicism and the hospitality, of Chile. That is the land of my nostalgia, the one I invoke in my solitude, the one that appears as a backdrop in so many of my stories, the one that comes to me in my dreams.

Om niet in zichzelf te praten praatte ze tegen haar kat, met de geruststellende zekerheid dat Neko geen tegenwerpingen zou maken en als een wijze kater alles begreep.

lloró largamente a esa mujer que había dedicado su existencia a hacer más cómoda la de otros y que murió sola.

Não gostava de pessoas, preferia os gatos. Digeria os humanos em pequenas doses, mais de três provocavam-lhe indigestão. - Alma Belasco

I lay in my bed night after night staring at the ceiling and thinking, Why have I survived the war? Why was I the last person in my immediate family to be alive? I didn't know.

I think it's nice to have New Zealand as a base for me... it's this little island on the bottom of the Earth. It's this nice, quiet place.

Anywhere which is in a forest, that's my zen place.

I don't socialise. My social life is minus zero.

I guess I always need some kind of solitude to get to that place where I am open enough and have zero distractions to start on the initial ideas for songs.

I like to shower for a really long time; that's a distraction-free zone for me.

I've always kept a low profile. I'm not comfortable at social events or parties. I feel awkward. So if I'm not working, I prefer to remain in my own zone.

I really like to have a moment alone at the house, either in the morning or when I come home from work, when I can just zone out at my computer, relax, stare out the window, get into a 'Game of Thrones' episode, go up on my roof, whatever, then go out to dinner.