Quotes About Solitude

Ashley Earley, Alone in Paris

I am going to build a fortress of books.Will you come inside and live with me?

Just the perfect peace of nothingness. That's what I believed.

Q: Why do I love thee, O Night?A: Because you know I will never answer.

It finally was entirely silent and I inhaled and breathed its magical peace...

Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone.Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

He is the one pocket of warmth in a sea of ice.

All clichés aside, sometimes a girl just needed to cry in the rain.

In a day it happens for once in my mind that you are the only one I have waited for

When I lost you...my world darkened beyond any known shade of black, and the only light that I have seen since is you...

when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

If you need to listen to music while walking, don't walk; and please don't listen to music.

wrote in front of a window overlooking trees:

He knew that he would either be fired or left alone. He was left alone.

Pavese spiegava che veniva là non per coraggio, perché lui di coraggio non ne aveva; e nemmeno per spirito di sacrificio. Veniva perché se no non avrebbe saputo come passar le serate; e non tollerava di passar le serate in solitudine.

I think we will send you money periodically. Not that money will solve anything, since you're alone, broke, unsettled, and unreliable. But we're all unreliable and broken somewhere inside and sometimes it seems desperately attractive to be unrooted and breaking nothing but your own solitude. That's how people find each other, and understand.

Aportarán también su profundo y obstinado amor por el ocio, por la contemplación, por una vida solitaria y apartada, y el deseo de una época en el que haya un amplio espacio para los que no tienen ganas de hacer nada.

Las palabras se habían ido acumulando en su interior sobre todo durante aquella última época en la que había guardado cama con la pierna enyesada fantaseando con las cartas que le llegaban de Viareggio, fumando y abanicándose apoyada en los cojines y rodeada de interlocutores imaginarios y de siluetas inciertas y cambiantes que asentían sonriendo.

Quando avevo pensato a me stessa in solitudine, mi ero trovata a volte troppo strana e sola per avere qualche diritto di vivere.

No a todo el mundo le hace bien la soledad. A ti no te hace bien porque piensas cosas absurdas. A mí, en cambio, la soledad me gusta y me hace bien.

Not that money will solve anything, since you're alone, broke, unsettled, and unreliable. But we're all unreliable and broken somewhere inside and sometimes it seems desperately attractive to be unrooted and breathing nothing but your own solitude

it seems desperately attractive to be unrooted and breathing nothing but your own solitude

She's gone," he answered.