Quotes About Solitude

That is what marks out the warrior: the knowledge that willpower and courage are not the same thing. Courage can attract fear and adulation, but willpower requires patience and commitment. Men and women with immense willpower are generally solitary types and give off a kind of coolness. Many people mistakenly think that (they) are cold (people) when nothing could be further from the truth.

L'essere umano può sopportare una settimana di sete, quattordici giorni di fame, alcuni anni senza un tetto, ma non riesce a tollerare la solitudine.

We were born alone, and we will die alone. But while we are on this planet, we must accept and glorify our act of faith through other people.

People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it's better to be with sheep who don't say anything at all.

At times, when loneliness seems to crush all beauty, the only way to resist is to remain open.

He felt the urge to go into the desert, to see if it's silence held the answers to his questions.

Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life. Therefore, blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge. If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.

If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself. And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.

Loco es quien vive en un mundo propio

Anyone who lives in her own world is crazy.

The smell of baking bread wafts up to my cell and reminds me of the days I walked freely in the cafes. This tears me apart more than my fear of death or the solitude in which I now find myself.

And he returned to his books, which had never asked him for anything he could not provide. That

God...never again allow me to be satisfied with only my own company. [May I] never feel afraid of needing someone, or of suffering. For there is no suffering worse than the dark grey room where pain cannot reach...

Some people were born to face life alone, and this is neither good nor bad, it is simply life.

The only things she cared about were solitude and beauty, direct communication with God, and above all a safe distance from the world that she already knew all too well and that no longer held any interest for her.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry up.

I love people. I love my family, my children . . . but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry up. ~Pearl Buck

U meni postoji mjesto gdje živim posve sama; tu obnavljam svoja prolje?a koja nikad ne presahnu

don't know what to tell you," he said slowly. "I have not had time to think much about myself. Wherever I have been—at least until now, I have been mostly alone. The others were always much bigger—much older." He paused to consider himself in the past. "Older in years, that is," he amended. "I've always been too old for myself." She looked at him thoughtfully. "Then you have an old soul.

and looked sharply across the street. There was only one house

It was strange how these poems came to him nowadays, the distillation of his private emotions, of his disillusionment, of his solitude, of his yearning for a future in which, nevertheless, he could not believe.

He could have been lonely except that he was never lonely, since he had always been alone.