Quotes About Solitude

I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.

I'll parade with those who are alone like me. They exist. They are very few, but they exist. I'll find them.

Jestem osob? bardzo pow?ci?gliw?, bardzo nie?mia??, obsesyjnie strzeg?c? swojej prywatno?ci i zasadniczo stroni?c? od ludzi. I nie wierz? w mity, zw?aszcza we w?asny.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

We come into the world alone, we die alone, we live alone. Love and friendship is the nearest thing that we can find to create the illusion that we are not totally alone

Pascal and his brilliant exposition in Pensées. "I have often said," Pascal wrote, "that the sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his own room."46

I shall be nothing, the wind, the sky.

And I was incapable of living all by myself in those lodgings where I didn't know a soul. It terrified me to sit by myself quietly in my room. I felt frightened, as if I might be set upon or struck by someone at any moment.

I am congenitally unable to take much interest in other people,

I'm going somewhere where there aren't any women.

I have always shook with fright before human beings. Unable I was in my ability to speak and act like a human being, I kept my solitary agonies locked in my breast. I kept my melancholy and my agitation hidden, careful lest any trace should be left exposed.

If you don't give a damn what the rest of the world is up to, you can be alone for a hundred years—a thousand years—with no difficulty whatsoever.

I should like to record that as I manipulated the peeling lacquer chopsticks to eat my jelly, I felt unbearably lonely.

No less than myself, though in a different way, he was entirely removed from the activities of the human beings of the world. We were of one species if only in that we were both disoriented.

Un hombre que se enamora cada día más profundamente de sí mismo no escucha lo que los demás le dicen. Lo siguiente de lo que se da cuenta es que yace en un subterráneo, indigno de considerarse humano.

I opened my trunk and almost burst into tears. At such times I always sought refuge in a bookstore.

Göze batmadan, pek çok insan?n yürüdü?ü yoldan sessizce gitmek en ak?ll? yol.

Welcome to Sadness. Population one.

It's because people have aspirations and ambitions that solitude wears on them. If you don't have a damn about what the rest of the world is up to, you can be alone for a hundred years- a thousand years- with no difficulty whatsoever. At least, you can if you don't let criticism bother you.

Este anciano es un gran aficionado al sake. Un gran bebedor suele ser, en la mayoría de los hogares, un hombre solitario. Decidir si bebe porque es un solitario o si se ha vuelto solitario porque el resto de la familia le ha dado de lado por ser bebedor es tan difícil como dar una palmada y determinar cuál de las dos manos es la que ha sonado...

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Anybody can be good in the country.