Quotes About Solitude

It, too, was empty. You might think that would be a given at this hour, but the preserve was a favorite haunt of birdwatchers, and those people are crazy.

Qué importa ya si me he quedado muda en un mundo en donde no tengo nadie con quien hablar?

Quizá las personas que están solas no tienen tiempo. El tiempo solo se adquiere mirándolo pasar por los demás.

I'm not going to get married at all,' I said. 'It's too easy to pick the wrong person. I'm going to live all by myself and I'm going to eat all my favourite things every day and stay up as late as I like, and I shall read all day and write stories and draw pictures with no one bothering me or fussing or needing to be looked after.

Solitude was her soul's hermitage.

Solitude was her soul's hermitage.

Though there was the occasional supper engagement, so often her evenings were spent alone, her staple diet being the large pan of soup she made at the beginning of the week. And later, as she donned her flannel pajamas and pulled a pillow

in a society in which power is so abstract that it can no longer be seized, in which the worst threat people feel is solitude and not alienation, conformity to the norm becomes the pleasure of belonging, and the acceptance of powerlessness takes root in the comfort of repetition.

I know a sentence that is still more terrifying, more terribly ambiguous than "I am alone," and it is, isolated from any other determining context, the sentence that would say to the other: "I am alone with you." Meditate on the abyss of such a sentence: I am alone with you, with you I am alone, alone in all the world.

Silner's hut we called it. There he spent his free time, surrounded by boxes and cans (we use the spar deck to store everything that we have no other space for), doing those mysterious things that all photographers seem to do when left to themselves.

Para saber de amor, para aprenderle, haber estado solo es necesario. Y es necesario en cuatrocientas noches - con cuatrocientos cuerpos diferentes - haber hecho el amor.

Pasan lentos los días y muchas veces estuvimos solos. Pero luego hay momentos felices para dejarse ser en amistad.

Solitude is for the strong, or for those who are ready to become strong. When a man is becoming great, he becomes solitary. He goes in solitude to seek, and that which he seeks, he finds, for there is a Way to all knowledge, all wisdom, all truth, all power. And the Way is for ever open, but it lies through soundless solitudes and the unexplored silences of man's being.

As the body cannot thrive on empty husks, neither can the spirit be sustained on empty pleasures. If not regularly fed the body loses its vitality, and, pained with hunger and thirst, cries out for food and drink. It is the same with the spirit: it must be regularly nourished in solitude on pure and holy thoughts or it will lose its freshness and strength, and will at last cry out in its painful and utter starvation.

It is in solitude only that a man can be truly revealed to himself, that he can come to understand his real nature, with all its powers and possibilities. The voice of the spirit is not heard in the hubbub of the world and amid the clamours of conflicting desires. There can be no spiritual growth without solitude.

Every master has his Elba. Banished to an island where the life you once knew no longer exists and it seems like there is no way to escape.

There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.

I simply wondered about the dead because their days had ended and I did not know how I would get through mine.

I remembered that life in that room seemed to be occuring beneath the sea, time flowed past indiffrently above us, hours and days had no meaning.

And here I was, left with only myself to deal with. It was entirely up to me.

Men are men, and sometimes they must be left alone.

I am too various to be trusted. If this were not so I would not be alone in this house tonight.

I did not want him to know me. I did not want anyone to know me.

Whether he is with others or not he is certainly alone.