Quotes About Solitude

The years pass into the years and we count our time in lonely private rhythms which have little to do with number or judgment or the uncertain shifting memory of friends.

It was safe to talk to yourself because of the roar you were subsumed in, besides being alone. I fragmented. One sense I had was that I was going to die sometime anyway. Another was that the falls were something you could never apply the term fake or stupid to. This has to be animism, was another feeling.

the church, but in memory I go and stand

For two days and nights and half another day again he walked – through lonely forests and down along the rushing mountain streams that seemed to know their destination far better than he knew his.

I want to ask him to wait, she said. I have just found my father, and I want it to be just we two for a while. I want to tell him he will have to wait.

The most lonely thing in the world is a soul when it is preparing to go on its far journey.

Sentirse solo no es sentirse inferior, sino distinto. El sentimiento de soledad no es una ilusión —como a veces lo es el de inferioridad— sino la expresión de un hecho real: somos, de verdad, distintos. Y, de verdad, estamos solos.

Si la soledad del mexicano es la de las aguas estancadas, la del norteamericano es la del espejo. Hemos dejado de ser fuentes.

Death and birth are solitary experiences. We are born alone and we die alone. When we are expelled from the maternal womb, we begin the painful struggle that finally ends in death.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition.

Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone: it is the opening of an impalpable, transparent wall - that of our consciousness - between the world and ourselves.

In my window night invents another night

Self discovery is above all the realization that we are alone

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another. His nature – if that word can be used in reference to man, who has 'invented' himself by saying 'no' to nature – consists in his longing to realize himself in another. Man is nostalgia and a search for communion. Therefore, when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is, of his solitude.

El sentimiento de soledad, por otra parte, no es una ilusión —como a veces lo es el de inferioridad— sino la expresión de un hecho real: somos, de verdad, distintos. Y, de verdad, estamos solos.

Estamos solos. La soledad, fondo de donde brota la angustia, empezó el día en que nos desprendimos del ámbito materno y caímos en un mundo extraño y hostil. Hemos caído, y esta caída, este sabernos caídos, nos vuelve culpables. ¿De qué? De un delito sin nombre: el haber nacido.

Death and birth are solitary experiences. We are born alone and we die alone.

Quizá morir con otro no es morirse. Quizá morimos sólo porque nadie quiere morirse con nosotros, nadie quiere mirarnos a los ojos.

Nuestra cólera no se nutre . . . del temor de ser utilizados por nuestros confidentes . . . sino de la vergüenza de haber renunciado a nuestra soledad. El que se confía, se enajena.

melancholy.

Why did you make only one of me? It's going to be lonely being me.

I was a disembodied, wandering view-point.

this stray little thought released in him some echo of the past, a solitary trembling note whose sound rose higher and higher in his chest, awakening inarticulate longings and, inseparable from them, a piercing, unfamiliar sorrow.

I like working alone. I feel freer, less constrained. I know what I have to do and I try to do it. There are no superficial hangups.