Quotes About Solitude

I hibernated in my past.

Come night, strike hour.Days go, I endure.

L'amour a épousé l'absence, un soir d'été;

On la connaît tous... Cette solitude qui nous mine parfois. Qui sabote notre sommeil ou pourrit nos petits matins. C'est la tristesse du premier jour d'école. C'est lorsqu'il embrasse une fille plus belle dans la cour du lycée. C'est Orly ou la gare de l'Est à la fin d'un amour. C'est l'enfant qu'on ne fera jamais ensemble. C'est quelquefois moi. C'est quelquefois vous. Mais il suffit parfois d'une rencontre...

Jusqu'où faut-il s'enfuir pour guérir une absence? Jusqu'où faut-il s'enfuir pour échapper à sa douleur, à son ombre, à sa vie?

Non, reprends-toi ! La vie est belle. Tu as tout ce que tu désires. Et tu sais très bien qu'on est toujours tout seul. Dans les moments vraiment flippants de l'existence, on est tout seul. On est tout seul quand l'amour s'en va, tout seul quand les flics débarquent au petit matin, tout seul face au médecin qui nous annonce un cancer, tout seul quand on crève…

Ng??i ta ch? t? do khi ? m?t mình-Authur SCHOPENHAUER

Retko se spasemo sasvim sami...

Uno tiene que estar en algún lado, si tan sólo se pudiera ser sin estar entonces podría ser lo que se dice un alma solitaria.

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

Are you as lonely as Kaspar Hauser?" "Much worse than Kaspar Hauser. I'm as lonely as myself.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?

A estas alturas y mientras dura el frío, la cocina es el estrado, el gabinete y el estudio

La soledad es el imperio de la conciencia.

Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms

There are two races on earth. Those who need others, who are distracted, occupied and refreshed by others, who are worried, exhausted and unnerved by solitude as by the ascension of a terrible glacier or the crossing of a desert; and those, on the other hand, who are wearied, bored, embarrassed, utterly fatigued by others, while isolation calms them, and the detachment and imaginative activity of their minds bathes them in peace.

She had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.

The privacy of pride.

Tell me, when your wife died...how did you go on living?" He opened his mouth and closed it without answering. She turned away. They went back through the forest to the sea. On the stony strand of the isle, he was still unable to speak. He watched as she unclipped and let fall her purple cloak, and then dropped the brooch that has pinned it and turned and went away along the white stones. The man named Mariscus followed her out of sight. How did you go on living?

SAM OWEN always fished by night.

Everybody has lonely places

He had curled himself up into a minature sphere in the farthest corner of the box, a fuzzy softball that would have fit eaisly into the palm of my hand.

She was learning something important: how to live within the sound of her own slow breathing, how to love the view when her eyes were shut.