Quotes About Solitude

Those days where all you feel like doing is laying in bed.

I act like I'm fine. Everyone thinks I'm okay, yet when the lights are off & I'm all alone, that is when the tears start to fall.

It is a pity to shut oneself indoors in the country,

Hardly even does one think of oneself, but only how to escape from oneself.

I asked myself whether marriage with Albertine would not spoil my life, as well by making me assume the burden, too heavy for my shoulders, of consecrating myself to another person, as by forcing me to live in absence from myself because of her continual presence and depriving me, forever, of the delights of solitude.

I would urge the driver to go as fast as he possibly could, so that the minutes might pass less slowly which I must spend without having anyone at hand to dispense me from the obligation myself to provide my sensibility

Once in my room I had to stop every loophole, to close the shutters, to dig my own grave as I turned down the bed-clothes, to wrap myself in the shroud of my nightshirt.

I would feel the satisfaction of being shut in from the outer world...

whenever I had read for too long and was in a mood for conversation, the friend to whom I would be burning to say something would at that moment have finished indulging himself in the delights of conversation, and wanted nothing now but to be left to read undisturbed.

For a long time, I went to bed early.

All this had been a source of pleasure to me, but that pleasure had remained hidden; it was one of those visitors who wait before letting us know that they are in the room until all the rest have gone and we are by ourselves.

it was one of those visitors who do not approach us till all the others have gone and we can be alone together; that is when we notice them, when we can say, "I'm all yours," and give them our full attention.

My solitude has become even more profound, and I know nothing of the sun but what your letter tells me. It has thus been a blessed messenger, and contrary to the proverb, this single swallow has made for me an entire spring.

Hello darkness, my old friend. I've come to talk with you again

Ya instalada, miré a mi alrededor y no pude reprimir un suspiro de satisfacción respaldado por los rayos de sol blancos y calientes que invadían el lugar. ¿Puede haber una sensación más excitante (y atemorizante a la vez, lo reconozco) para una mujer que el sentirse fuera del alcance de los demás, de los cercanos que la aman pero que simultánea y sutilmente la ahogan?

No sé si me equivoco, pero creo que la soledad tiene que ver con la cantidad de amor que alguien ha sentido y recibido; ese volumen de gracia te preserva del desplome.

I could almost disappear and the world would go on, a never-ending sentence without a pause.

Improvvisamente sentì la gola arsa e la propria solitudine, senza che le due cose avessero un legame reciproco.

Men seek out retreats for themselves in the country, by the seaside, on the moutains. . .But all this is unphilosophical to the last degree. . .when thou canst at a moment's notice retire into thyself.

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

True individuality can be lonely.

Niemals ist man tätiger, als wenn man dem äußeren Anschein nach nichts tut, niemals ist man weniger allein, als wenn man in der Einsamkeit mit sich allein ist.

Never less idle than when wholly idle, nor less alone than when wholly alone.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.