Quotes About Solitude

I don't like being alone.

I wish I could live underwater. Maybe then my skin would absorb the sea's consoling silence.

Solitude, Celia realizes now, exists for us not to remember but to forget.

Le dije que me gustaba, y quedé insatisfecha. La verdad era que a veces no me gustaba nada, pero no podía vivir sin ella. Le dije que la quería, pero también quiero a mi perro. Después le dije que la amaba, pero mi incomodidad fue mayor aún [...] decidí prescindir del lenguaje, entonces me acusó de no querer comunicarme. Desde hace unos años, sólo existe el silencio. Encuentro, en él, una rara ecuanimidad: la de los placeres solitarios.

Could live with you in solitude and need no one else. Give me your love.

Anyone who's really interested in anything spends time alone.

To remain alone did not seem to me a terrible fate, no worse than being falsely joined to another person.

She was so much better at being alone; being alone came more naturally to her. She led a life of deliberate solitude, and if occasional loneliness crept in, she knew how to work her way out of that particular divot. Or even better, how to sink in and absorb its particular comforts.

She was so much better at being alone; being alone came more naturally to her. She led a life of deliberate solitude, and if occasional loneliness crept in, she knew how to work her way out … Or even better, how to sink in and absorb its particular comforts.

she understood he was lonely and that their ritual comforted him, connected the noises of her life with the silence of his

She was so much better at being alone; being alone came more naturally to her. She led a life of deliberate solitude, and if occasional loneliness crept in, she knew how to work her way out of that particular divot. Or even better, how to sink in and absorb its particular comforts. On

Some people were just meant to be alone.

No, no, sometimes a person feels to be alone." "If you're alone too much," Persky said, "you think too much." "Without a life," Rosa answered, "a person lives where they can. If all they got is thoughts, that's where they live." "You ain't got a life?" "Thieves took it.

She couldn't get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn't get away.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

It is closing time in the gardens of the West and from now on an artist will be judged only by the resonance of his solitude or the quality of his despair.

Da quando sono qui da sola, ho la sensazione di passeggiare tenendo i miei morti per mano. Facciamo un giro, mi confortano e mi hanno paura allo stesso tempo. Mi raccontano la stessa storia, tutti i giorni.

She got out at Raspail. I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A sponge, suffering because it cannot saturate itself; a river, suffering because reflections of clouds and trees are not clouds and trees.

I was left behind with the immensity of existing things. A river, suffering because reflections of clouds and tress and not clouds and trees.

To tell the truth we should not exist. We, not any collective plural, just you and me.

Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.

and what is more annoying than to be chatted to when you are absorbed in a book?