Quotes About Isolation

We are always only in our own company.

Did I seek where the wind bites keenest, learn to live where no one lives, in the desert where only the polar bear lives, unlearn to pray and curse, unlearn man and god, become a ghost flitting across the glaciers?

spirit and his solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it. But finally he had a change of heart

Aren't we straying as though through an infinite nothing? Isn't empty space breathing at us?

Sa m?c lá»›n d?n, kh?n thay cho k? nào ôm gi? sa m?c.

Anlam?yorlar beni, bu kulaklara göre a??z deÄŸilim ben.

Like a deep well is the solitary. Easy it is to throw a stone in; but if it sink to the bottom, tell me, who will want to fetch it out again?

How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one.

No quedar adherido a ninguna persona: aunque sea la más amada, - toda persona es una cárcel, y también un rincón.

To one man, solitude is the escape of an invalid; for another, it is escape from the invalids.

flee, my friend, into thy solitude! i see thee defended with the noise of great men, and stung all over with the stings of little ones. Admirably do forest and rock know how to be silent with thee. resemble again the tree which thou lovest

Virtue has all the instincts of the average man against it: it is unprofitable, imprudent, it isolates; it is related to passion and not very accessible to reason; it spoils the character, the head, the mind — according to the standards of mediocre men; it rouses to enmity toward order, toward the lies that are concealed in every order, institution, actuality — it is the worst of vices, if one judges by its harmful effects on others.

But one day solitude will make you weary, one day your pride will buckle and your courage gnash its teeth. One day you will cry, 'I am alone!

Or is it this: To be sick and send away the comforters, and to make friends of the deaf, who never hear your requests?

A: But why this solitude? - B: I am not at odds with anyone. But when I am alone I seem to see my friends in a clearer and fairer light than when I am with them; and when I loved and appreciated music the most, I lived far from it. It seems I need a distant perspective if I am to think well of things.

The slavery of barbarians (i.e. our own slavery). The division of labour is the principle of barbarism. Dominance of mechanism. In an organism, the parts cannot be separated. The individualism of modernity and its opposite in antiquity. The wholly isolated individual of today is too weak and joins groups of slaves?of e.g. an academic discipline, a concept, a vice.

Everything that is of my kind, in nature and history, speaks to me, praises me, spurs me on, comforts me - everything else I don't hear or forget right away. We are always only in our own company.

during the longest period of the human past nothing was more terrible than to feel that one stood by oneself. To be alone, to experience things by oneself, neither to obey nor to rule, to be an individual—that was not a pleasure but a punishment; one was sentenced "to individuality.

Uno va dal prossimo perché cerca se stesso, e l'altro perché vorrebbe perdersi. Il vostro cattivo amore per voi stessi fa della solitudine una prigione per voi.

Para unos, la soledad es la huida del enfermo; para otros, la huida ante el enfermo.

Live in concealment in order that you may live to yourself. Live ignorant of that which seems to your age to be most important!

Há dias em que se apodera de mim um sentimento mais negro que a mais negra melancolia – o desprezo dos homens.

He who seeketh may easily get lost himself. All isolation is wrong": so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd. The voice of the herd will still echo in thee. And when thou sayest, "I have no longer a conscience in common with you," then will it be a plaint and a pain.

Thus months and years passed by for the lonely one; but his wisdom grew and caused him pain with its fullness.