Quotes About Solitude

There are empty spaces that must be respected – those often long periods when a person can't see the pictures or find the words and needs to be left alone.

by and by a change came: I started to muse about the shape of my nose. I put my trivial surroundings aside and mused more and more about myself, and I found this to be a bewitching occupation. I stopped asking and longed instead to speak of my thoughts and feelings. Alas, there was no one besides myself who found me interesting.

Anyway, solitary people interest me. There are so many different ways of being solitary.' 'I know just what you mean,' said X. 'I know exactly what you're going to say. Different kinds of solitude. Enforced solitude and voluntary solitude.' 'Quite,' said Viktoria. 'There's no need to go into it further. But when people understand one another without speaking, it can often leave them with very little to talk about, don't you think?

No one can depict desolation who hasn't inhabited desolation and observed it very closely. Things condemned have a terrible beauty.

The world's asleep,' Moomintroll thought. 'It's only I who am awake and sleepless. It's only I who have to wander and wander, day after day and week upon week, until I too become a snowdrift that no one will even know about.

a person can also find solitude with others, though it is more difficult

The Dweller Under the Sink had still not come out to eat but was probably living a secret and important life by himself.

Ingen ting kan være så rolig og så uendelig som et langt vitermørke, det fortsetter og fortsetter, det er som å leve i en tunnel der mørket stundom fordyper seg til natt og stundom blir dagskumring, man er avskjermet fra alt, beskyttet og mer ensom enn ellers.

How nice to be on your own for a bit and do what you like.

Mats har ingen hemmeligheter. Det er derfor han er så hemmelighetsfull. Ingen må forstyrre ham, han må få være uforstyrret i en forenklet og ren verden.

Uno se debe encontrar muy solo cuando todo el mundo te tiene miedo.

När jag blev trött på det ena eller det andra gick jag till vedbacken ett tag. Vedbackens idé är alldeles klar; att såga och hugga med gott samvete, att få vara ifred, att det luktar gott och att det för en gångs skull blir vad man har tänkt sig.

Tonight I'm alone with my tune, and tonight isn't tomorrow.

To the final landscape of our old age, as summer fades...Silence settles around us, each of us wanders his own way, and yet we all meet by the sea in the peaceful sunset.

Det är en kväll för en sång, tänkte Snusmumriken. En ny visa som ska ha en del förväntan i sig och två delar vårmelankoli och resten bara hejdlös förtjusning över att få vandra och vara ensam och trivas med sig själv.

Here in the shadow of the firs lay everything the old house had spat out in the course of its life, everything worn out and unnecessary, everything not to be seen. In the darkening winter evening, this landscape was utterly abandoned, a territory that had no meaning for anyone but him. He found it beautiful.

Najednou se muminka zmocnila taková radost, že se musel odebrat do samoty. Okdrá?el pomalu ke k?lnÄ›. A když ho nikdo nevidÄ›l, dal se do bÄ›hu. B?žel v roztálém snÄ›hu, slunce se mu opíralo do zad a on b?žel a b?žel, protože byl Å¡Å¥astný a na nic nemyslel.

Mari hörte nicht so genau zu, ein abenteuerlicher Gedanke begann Form anzunehmen: die Möglichkeit eines ganz eigenen Alleinseins in Frieden und Erwartung, fast eine Art Jux, den man sich erlauben kann, wenn man mit Liebe gesegnet ist.

Somewhere on the other side of it all is Snufkin,' Moomintroll said to himself. 'He's sitting somewhere in the sun, peeling an orange. If I only knew that he knew that I'm climbing these mountains for his sake, then I could do it. But all alone I'll never manage it.

Walking had been easy, because his knapsack was nearly empty and he had no worries on his mind. He felt happy about the wood and the weather and himself. Tomorrow and yesterday were both at a distance, and just at present the sun was shining brightly red between the birches, and the air was cool and soft.

Jag var betagen av en ny slags avskildhet som inte alls vara isolering, bara att få vara utanför, och inget ont samvete för nånting alls. Jag vet inte hur det gick till men allting blev enkelt och jag lät mig bara vara glad.

Jag var betagen av en ny slags avskildhet som inte alls var isolering, bara att få vara utanför, och inget ont samvete för nånting alls. Jag vet inte hur det gick till men allting blev enkelt och jag lät mig bara vara glad.

The very last house stood all by itself under a dark green wall of fir-trees, and here the wild country really began. Snufkin walked faster and faster straight into the forst. Then the door of the last house opened a chink and a very old voice cried: 'Where are you off to?' 'I don't know,' Snufkin replied. The door shut again and Snufkin entered his forest, with a hundred miles of silence ahead of him.

Han gikk og gikk, men ikke noe hendte, skjønt det var fullt av folk på alle hold. Og knøttet møtte ingen som han kjente, for knøttet var et meget ensomt lite troll, og altfor sky og blyg til å si : Hei! Kan jeg få snakke litt med deg?