Quotes About Solitude

I came to this city to escape.

My own heart, like this wild place, has never been visited, and I do not know whether it could sustain life.

Cuando eres un niño solitario siempre encuentras un amigo imaginario.

Lonely cries, and she was lonely, not for friends but for a time that hadn't been violated.

She was such a solitary woman. A solitary woman who longed for one person to know her. I think I do know her now, but it is too late.

Xeno couldn't manage too much nearness. He was solitary and introverted, with an enthusiasm that people mistook for sociability. He was interested in everything, attentive to people, genuinely kind, and entirely present when he was present. But he was never sorry to close the door at night or to be alone.

Yet I wish I had a cat.

our outside loo, known as the Betty, was a good loo; whitewashed and compact with a flashlight hanging behind the door. I smuggled books in there to read them in secret, claiming constipation.

This voyage of ours is lonely--the more so if we find a companion, only to suffer the bitterest loss. In truth we are alone.

For myself, with no one to love, a hedgehog spirit seemed best and I hid my heart in the leaves.

No one else was there, with the weather like this. If I still lived there, I'd be indoors too. It's a visitor's privilege to be foolish.

Let me read to you," said Roger Nowell. "It is a night for reading.

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?

My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.

I am a hundred times happier in my solitude than I could be if I lived among them.

I can understand how it is that city-dwellers, who see only walls and streets and crimes, have so little religion. But I cannot understand how those who live in the country, and the solitary especially, can be lacking in faith. How is it that their souls are not raised in ecstasy a hundred times a day to the Author of the wonders that strike their eyes?

O t?cere des?vârÅŸit? te îndeamn? la tristeÈ›e, e ca o icoan? a morÈ›ii.

Estas cadenas no me parecieron, sin embargo, muy pesadas, en tanto en cuanto, ignorado por el público, viví en la oscuridad.

El gusto por la soledad y la contemplación nació en mi corazón con los sentimientos expansivos y tiernos hechos para ser su alimento. El tumulto y el ruido los oprimen y los ahogan, la calma y la paz los reaniman y los exaltan. Tengo necesidad de recogerme para amar.

Dünyan?n gürültüsü beni sersem ediyor, yaln?zl?k içimi s?k?yordu; boyuna yer deÄŸiÅŸtirmek gereÄŸini duymakta, hiçbir yerde rahat etmemekteydim.

En cuanto a mí, siempre que he deseado aprender ha sido para saber yo mismo y no para enseñar; siempre he creído que antes de enseñar a los demás era menester comenzar por saber lo bastante para sí, y, de todos los estudios que he intentado hacer en mi vida en medio de los hombres, apenas hay alguno que no hubiera hecho igualmente solo en una isla desierta en la que hubiera estado confinado para el resto de mis días.

Il me semble que sous les ombrages d'une forêt je suis oublié, libre et paisible comme si je n'avais plus d'ennemis.

Je me voyais au déclin d'une vie innocente et infortunée l'âme encore pleine de sentiments vivaces et l'esprit encore orné de quelques fleurs, mais déjà flétries par la tristesse et desséchées par les ennuis. Seul et délaissé, je sentais venir le froid des premières glaces, et mon imagination tarissant ne peuplait plus ma solitude d'êtres formés selon mon cÅ"ur. Je me disais en soupirant : qu'ai-je fait ici-bas !