Quotes About Solitude

Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

Where do you find more eroticism than in the cloister of a convent?

El bar es para mí un lugar de meditación y recogimiento, sin el cual la vida es inconcebible.

The bar . . . is an exercise in solitude. Above all else, it must be quiet, dark, very comfortable - and, contrary to modern mores, no music of any kind, no matter how faint. In sum, there should be no more than a dozen tables, and a client that doesn't like to talk.

El fresco verano llena Andaluzas soledades; no acercarán amistades la tierna imagen ajena. Visos y dejos de pena el agua me robaría; que la desdicha sonría hasta que el viento la lleve. Y en un molino de nieve levanto una nevería.

Yo vengo sin idiomas desde mi soledad, y sin idiomas voy hacia la tuya. No hay nada que decir, pero supongo que hablaremos desnudos sobre esto, algo después, quitándole importancia, avivando los ritmos del pasado, las cosas que están lejos y que ya no nos duelen.

Aprender a estar sola, sin ser un náufrago, y lograr que las voces que acuden a esa soledad sean compañeras.

Las debilidades son lo único bueno que tenemos. Es aburrido ser fuerte, y muy agradable flaquear a solas... y entre dos

Only this reality is real now, only this place is real, sitting in the lonely cell of your will...

In silence lies safety.

He's at the library, I think. Safe and sound in his world of books... Maybe he'll write one someday.

We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.

Maybe I had been alone in that apartment so much by then that I had retreated into some kind of inner, unsociable space that was hard to come out of. Maybe I felt I had disappeared and I was comfortable that way and did not want to be forced back into existence. I don't know.

I am happy doing the work I do, alone at a desk. That work is a great part of every day. But when I am old and alone all the time, will it be enough to think about the work I used to do?

I should check now and then to make sure I am not alone too much, or unhappy with other people too often.

In a simple way, that same night, like two hungry and thirsty people, we could decide we wanted to find a place to be alone together and remain together long enough to satisfy our appetite.

When there were two of you, you decided so many little things together, such as which room to sit in with your morning coffee. When you were alone, he said, it was so miserably difficult to make those little choices.

And so we turn off the telephone during this program and do not answer the knock at the door that rarely comes.

Free yourself of your device, for at least certain hours of the day—or at the very least one hour. Learn to be alone, all alone, without people and without a device that is turned on. Learn to experience the purity of that kind of concentration. Develop focus, learn to focus intently on one thing, uninterrupted, for a long time.

Mas não quero resposta, quero ficar só. Gosto muito das pessoas mas essa necessidade voraz que às vezes me vem de me libertar de todos. Enriqueço na solidão: fico inteligente, graciosa e não esta feia ressentida que me olha do fundo do espelho. Ouço duzentas e noventa e nove vezes o mesmo disco, lembro poesias, dou piruetas, sonho, invento, abro todos os portões e quando vejo a alegria está instalada em mim.

Então meu amado foi se fechando com seu cachimbo e seu Proust, solidão de bicho de caramujo, pode bater que não abro.

Se eu ficar assim imóvel, respirando leve, sem ódio, sem amor, se eu ficar assim um instante, sem pensamento, sem corpo…

Ela deixou pender os braços desamparados dentro das mangas do hábito, inclinou a cabeça e ficou pensativa, olhando para dentro de si mesma. E o que vê não deve ser animador.

Ao passar pela porta do quarto azul, susteve a respiração. "A mãe dormiu." Era tão bom quando ela dormia! Os loucos deviam dormir o tempo todo, de dia e de noite, como as bonecas que só abrem os olhos quando tiradas da caixa.