Quotes About Solitude

N-am încotro: orice-aÈ™ face, mie-mi plac întotdeauna extremele. În materie de fiinÈ›e, nu agreez decât animalele È™i plantele des?vârÈ™ite, decât pe aceia care-È™i fac cinstit treaba, f?r? s? priceap? altceva, f?r? s? se vânture de ici-colo, p?l?vr?gind È™i urm?rindu-È™i ambiÈ›iile, sau geniul adev?rat, sufletul m?reÈ›, eroul uriaÈ™ È™i solitar ca un munte de noapte.

M? zb?team împotriva ispitelor unei mediocrit??i necesare, încercam s? creez în jurul meu o singur?tate nemiloas? a spiritului, dac? nu a trupului; luptam cu mine însumi, m? pedepseam, m? obiÈ™nuiam cu suferinÈ›ele, în vederea unor încerc?ri apropiate È™i cumplite.

Inca de pe atunci, indepartat de la orice caldura si bucurie, ma ascundeam, ma linisteam pe mine insumi, in reveria lacoma, in solitara rumegare a lumii reintregite prin eu. Nu eram placut celorlalti, iar ura m-a intarcuit in singuratate. Singuratatea m-a facut mai trist si mai antipatic; tristetea mi-a strans inima si mi-a ascutit mintea. Firea mea deosebita m-a indepartat chiar de cei mai apropiati, iar despartirea m-a facut si mai deosebit.

Soltanto il mare gli brontolava la solita storia lì sotto, in mezzo ai faraglioni perché il mare non ha paese nemmeno lui, ed è di tutti quelli che lo stanno ad ascoltare, di qua e di là dove nasce e muore il sole, anzi ad Aci Trezza ha un modo tutto suo di brontolare, e si riconosce subito al gorgogliare che fa tra quegli scogli nei quali si rompe, e par la voce di un amico.

Quando uno non ha niente, il meglio è di andarsene.

I prefer solitude to companions, since there are so few men who are trustworthy, and almost none truly learned. I do not say this because I demand scholarship in all men -- although the sum total of men's learning is small enough; but I question whether we should allow anyone to waste our time. The wasting of time is an abomination.

Bellacoglienza era rimasta sola, e si stringeva nel suo lettino. Era felice di essere sola. Dante Alighieri, quante parole gli aveva sentito mormorare, quante sciocchezze sussurrano gli uomini in quel momento. Era un poeta importante, le aveva detto qualcuno. Chissà.

Let me be like a thing left in a corner and forgotten

Of this poetry I'm left with the emptiness of an endless secret

Lasciatemi così come una cosa posata in un angolo e dimenticata

I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its face and see its wonders, but when I go down, there will be no child to carry my name, no family to mourn me save my comrades, no one to remember, no one to raise a marker over my cold bit of ground.

When something happened that was everything to you you realized it was nothing to everything else.

We stayed like that, him watching me crying, for as long as we could stand it. Then he took a couple of paces away. The room needed a window for him to go to and look out of. I could feel the grammar of the moment demanding it.

If others fell by the wayside, dear women and strong, loved by men, how had she, single and unloved, kept her sanity?

Everyone needs a place where they can go to just ponder for a while. Silence is important; it's the only time you can hear the whispering of truth.

If an artist wants to use his mind for creative work, cutting oneself off from society is a necessary thing

I've always had a sort of intuition that for every hour you spend with other human beings you need x number of hours alone. Now, what that x represents I don't really know, whether it be two and seven-eights or seven and two-eights, but it's a substantial ratio.

This solitude that you can acquire and should cultivate, this opportunity for contemplation of which you should take advantage, will be useful to you only insofar as you can substitute for those questions posed by the student for the teacher, questions posed by yourself for yourself. - Advice to a Graduation

When my mother died I learned that grief can be a very private thing.

La juventud persiste hasta mucho después de que uno ha dejado de ser joven. El amor por la vida permanece indefinidamente, con menos probabilidad de ser amado, menos habilidad de amar, y con el aguijón de la pasión tan acuciante como siempre. El solterón envejecido no es tan distinto de un viejo halcón.

The surest way to be alone is to get married.

Only food and water are more important than music and privacy

Spiders should be the totem of writers. Both go into a space alone and spin out of their own bodies a reality that has never existed before.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude; character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.