Quotes About Solitude

She fell into a waking dream and on clear nights walked for miles on the world and in the woods.

Here I know nobody; nobody knew me.

Hild slipped away to sit in the moon shadow of a tufted dune with the sheathed knife in her lap and listen to the night breeze in the grass and think about nothing in particular.

Population growth disquiets the demographer only when he fears that it will impede economic progress or make it harder to feed the masses. But that man needs solitude, that human proliferation produces cruel societies, that distance is required between men so that the spirit might breathe, does not interest him. The quality of man does not matter to him.

The "ivory tower" has a bad reputation only among the inhabitants of intellectual hovels.

When nothing in society deserves respect, we should fashion for ourselves in solitude new silent loyalties

Ich wandle in der Finsternis. Doch mich leitet der Duft des Ginsters.

El hombre no se comunica con otro hombre sino cuando el uno escribe en su soledad y el otro lo lee en la suya. Las conversaciones son o diversión, o estafa, o esgrima.

I think I jump around more when I'm alone.

Tu sais que t'es chez toi quand t'as trouvé un trou où calancher en paix.

there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.

Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.

She pictured herself in a world without him, a world where she had only her own heart and mind to follow. A world open and blank with possibility; terrifying, almost.

There were the endless birthday nights and New Year's Eves of just you in your bed and no one else. There was the welling up at weddings, the glittery eye-prick, when all the couples would get up to dance. Sometimes it felt like your heart was crazed with cracks like your grandmother's old saucers. Sometimes the sight of a Saturday afternoon couple laughing in a park would splinter it completely.

An emptiness when you realize the loneliest you've ever been is within a marraige, as a wife

Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self. ...You think of the two types of aloneness you've known recently: this wonderful, sparkly, soul-refreshing type, and the despairing loneliness that sucks the breath from your life.

and sometimes I sit down at my typewriter and I think not of someone cause there isn't anyone to think about and i wonder is it worth it

Only the wind shatters the silence. I have been here before choking in solitude.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

in his mind, nothing could be more delightful than to live in solitude, and enjoy the spectacle of nature, and sometimes read some book or other.

a quiet room with cockroaches peeping out like prunes from every corner...

And now, at length, in my declining years, I am seeking a corner in which to eke out the remainder of my miserable existence, while at the present moment I am enjoying the hospitality of a neighbour of your acquaintance.

Going to the window,

Instálese en un rincón tranquilo, cerca de la iglesia y de la gente sencilla y buena: o si tiene grandes deseos de dejar descendencia, cásese con alguna muchacha pobre y buena. Olvídese de este mundo ruidoso y de todas sus lujosas tentaciones, y que él también lo olvide. En este mundo no hay consuelo. Ya lo ve usted: no hay más que enemigos, traiciones y pecados