Quotes About Solitude

One of the most important forms of heroism is the heroism of conciousness, the heroism of thought: the willingness to tolerate aloneness.

No solo hay que estar dispuesto a soportar el dolor y el sufrimiento sino que tambièn hay que asumir la soledad, la cruda realidad de que la niña pequeña que una vez fue, no tuvo -y no tendrà jamàs- los padres que necesitaba y hubiera deseado.

Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness—that is, the absence of supportive feedback from their social environment.

Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness.

Her intellect and heart had their home, as it were, in desert places, where she roamed as freely as the wild Indian in his woods.

If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.

A woman never overcomes these problems by any exercise of thought. They are not to be solved, or only in one way. If her heart chance to come uppermost, they vanish. Thus Hester Prynne, whose heart had lost its regular and healthy throb, wandered without a clue in the dark labyrinth of mind; now turned aside by an insurmountable precipice; now starting back from a deep chasm. There was wild and ghastly scenery all around her, and a home and comfort nowhere.

The dell was to be left in solitude among its dark, old trees, which, with their multitudinous tongues, would whisper long of what had passed there, and no mortal be the wiser. And the melancholy brook would add this other tale to the mystery with which its little heart was already overburdened, and whereof it still kept up a murmuring babble, with not a whit more cheerfulness of tone than for ages heretofore.

Every gesture, every word, and even the silence of those with whom she came in contact, implied, and often expressed, that she was banished, and as much alone as if she inhabited another sphere, or communicated with the common nature by other organs and senses than the rest of human kind.

or in the forest; mingling various walks with the splash and murmur of the waves, and the solemn wind-anthem among the tree-tops.

They stood, as it were, in an utter solitude, which would be made none the less solitary by the densest throng of human life.

Then she was sure of her, and tasted hours of quiet, sad, delicious happiness;

We must not always talk in the marketplace of what happens to us in the forest.

Sería un curioso tema de investigación y observación el de si, en el fondo, el amor y el odio no son la misma cosa. Ambos hacen que un individuo dependa de otro en lo que se refiere al alimento de su espíritu; ambos dejan, al amante apasionado o, igualmente, al que odia con pasión, desoladamente solitario cuando su objeto desaparece.

It had the effect of a spell, taking her out of the ordinary relations with humanity and enclosing her in a sphere by herself.

Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers--stern and wild ones--and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.

Mother and daughter stood together in the same circle of seclusion from human society;

I wonder he is not afraid to be alone with himself. Men sometimes are so, said her husband.

It was carelessly at first, like a man chiefly accustomed to look inward, and to whom external matters are of little value and import, unless they bear relation to something within his mind.

The tendency of her fate and fortunes had been to set her free. The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers - stern and wild ones - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.

O, what a joy for a shy man to feel himself so solitary, that he may lift his voice to its highest pitch without hazard of a listener!

The gloomy and desolate old house, deserted of life, and with awful Death sitting sternly in its solitude, was the emblem of many a human heart, which, nevertheless, is compelled to hear the thrill and echo of the world's gayety around it.

I breakfasted at four [a.m.], was in the saddle at five, and between that hour and 6 p.m. I rode fifty miles over a rough country, unknown to everybody, and only myself for a guide

If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die.