Best 1398 quotes in «solitude quotes» category

Clara looked at Maria and tried to understand what she must do so that Maria would be able to see her. But the little French girl cast all around her the bronze of infinite solitude.

Company, you see - company is - is - it's a very different thing from solitude - an't it?

Company is a burden to those at home in the solitude of their souls.

Conception takes place when a man gets together with his creator in solitude.

Connections are difficult. There’s an irritation in being among people who’ve already found their connection, and finding that those left who haven’t are just as undesirable as the void they would be replacing. The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An imposed solitude is better than simply tolerating your company in waiting for something better. So loneliness is not such a terrible thing when you consider that the alternative to thought provoking solace is to be surrounded only by reminders of why that solitude is preferable.

Consider A Move The steady time of being unknown, in solitude, without friends, is not a steadiness that sustains. I hear your voice waver on the phone: Haven't talked to anyone for days. I drive around. I sit in parking lots. The voice zeroes through my ear, and waits. What should I say? There are ways to meet people you will want to love? I know of none. You come out stronger having gone through this? I no longer believe that, if I once did. Consider a move, a change, a job, a new place to live, someplace you'd like to be. That's not it, you say. Now time turns back. We almost touch. Then what is? I ask. What is?

Contemplation means rest, suspension of activity, withdrawal into the mysterious interior solitude in which the soul is absorbed in the immense and fruitful silence of God and learns something of the secret of His perfections less by seeing than by fruitive love.

Controversă Era acel tânăr prea singur! Dar toți îl iubeau... - Atunci, nu era așa singur! Sau ceilalți nu erau.

CORNELIA: -Sit down. Don't leave the table. GRACE: -Is that an order? CORNELIA: -I don't give orders to you, I make requests. GRACE: -Sometimes the requests of an employer are hard to distinguish from orders. [She sits down]

Creativity flourishes in solitude.

Creativity is a blessing and curse. You can't look away from creating more and always want to do better and you will always suffer in company of non-creative people who won't let your thoughts grow past their patty senseless thinking. Solitude is the best friend for all creators.

Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude And fled to the silence of sweet solitude.

Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude And fled to the silence of sweet solitude. Where the flower in green darkness buds, blossoms, and fades, Unseen of all shepherds and flower-loving maids— The hermit bees find them but once and away. There I'll bury alive and in silence decay.

Crime, too, means solitude, even if a thousand people join together to commit it.

Da ich nun einmal nicht imstande war, die Menschen vernünftiger zu machen, war ich lieber fern von ihnen glücklich.

Dantes,rejected by all the world,frequently experienced a desire for solitude, and what solitude is at the same time more complete,more poetical , than that of a bark floating isolated on the sea during the obscurity of the night, in the silence of immensity and under the eye of Heaven? Now this solitude was peopled with this thoughts, the night lighted by his illusions, and the silence animated by his anticipations.

Dear solitude, how I missed you in the times I was so attached to the illusion of loneliness, how I secretly longed for you in times of distraction with music and addiction, how I desired to dive into the creativity of your silent whispers.. oh solitude, I remember you there when I wrote my first book, I recall your inspiring voice when that pen hit the paper.. When I was no longer by your side, oh solitude, how you silently tried to draw me back to you, by showing me the continuous struggle to feel full among unfulfilling relationships or restless nights of loneliness.. Oh solitude, if it wasn't for you, where would I find all that you could provide, only you..

Death and birth are solitary experiences. We are born alone and we die alone. When we are expelled from the maternal womb, we begin the painful struggle that finally ends in death.

Debemos reservarnos una trastienda del todo nuestra, del todo libre, donde fijar nuestra verdadera libertad y nuestro principal retiro y soledad. En ella debemos mantener nuestra habitual conversación con nosotros mismos, y tan privada que no tenga cabida ninguna relación o comunicación con cosa ajena; discurrir y reír como si no tuviésemos mujer, hijos ni bienes, ni séquito ni criados, para que, cuando llegue la hora de perderlos, no nos resulte nuevo arreglárnoslas sin ellos. Poseemos un alma que puede replegarse en sí misma; puede hacerse compañía, tiene con qué atacar y con qué defender, con qué recibir y con qué dar. No temamos, en esta soledad, pudrirnos en el tedio del ocio: In solis sis tibi turba locis. [En estas soledades, sé una multitud para ti mismo]. La virtud se contenta consigo misma: sin enseñanzas, sin palabras, sin obras.

Deep down in my heart I know How much it’s hard for me to belong Either to someone Or to somewhere. Because it has always been there in my heart; the desire to make a world of my own out of everyone I meet or everyplace I go. And maybe that’s why it has never worked out for me to belong To any place or to any other person in the whole world But myself …

...disconnection is the ability to unplug your mind from the constant bombardment of all the distractions that come your way in order to connect to your inner mind and inner focus. It is the ability to find solitude in yourself. The more we can develop our ability to focus, the more we will be in control of how we respond to (or ignore) the distractions that come our way.

Defined simply, narcissism means excessive self-preoccupation; pragmatism means excessive focus on work, achievement, and the practical concerns of life; and restlessness means an excessive greed for experience, an overeating, not in terms of food but in terms of trying to drink in too much of life...And constancy of all three together account for the fact that we are so habitually self-absorbed by heartaches, headaches, and greed for experience that we rarely find the time and space to be in touch with the deeper movements inside of and around us.

Derestricted Liberty is such like sitting far,on the blissful wings of solitude,below the crystal clear,infinite skies,full of musing feels with myriad of visions could satiate now.

Difficile è credere in una cosa quando si è soli, e non se ne può parlare con alcuno. Proprio in quel tempo Drogo si accorse come gli uomini, per quanto possano volersi bene, rimangono sempre lontani; che se uno soffre il dolore è completamente suo, nessun altro può prenderne su di sé una minima parte; che se uno soffre, gli altri per questo non sentono male, anche se l'amore è grande, e questo provoca la solitudine della vita.

Divinity dwells in thee. To activate the power, you must connect with the spirit daily.

Do I avoid looking a stranger in the eyes because I don't want to make him uncomfortable, or do I turn my eyes so he can't look into me?

Drowning in silence; for in silence I shall never be disappointed …

Don’t be afraid of being alone; remember, when the sun rises, it rises with nobody at its side.

Drifting across the vast space, silent except for wind and footsteps, I felt uncluttered and unhurried for the first time in a while, already on desert time.

D'une complexion farouche et bavarde, ayant le désir de ne voir personne et le besoin de parler à quelqu'un, il se tirait d'affaire en se parlant à lui-même. Quiconque a vécu solitaire sait à quel point le monologue est dans la nature. La parole intérieure démange. Haranguer l'espace est un exutoire. Parler tout haut et tout seul, cela fait l'effet d'un dialogue avec le dieu qu'on a en soit.

Doubt grew only in the fertile darkness of solitude

En el fondo, seguía siendo, y siempre sería, una niña tímida que sólo se sentía a gusto en una soledad montaraz.

Em jogo estaria a seguinte tese: pode um homem, psicológica e espiritualmente, viver de um modo completamente autossuficiente, sem precisar de mais ninguém?

En cuanto al fin que nos proponen Plinio y Cicerón, la gloria, estoy muy lejos de tenerla en cuenta. La inclinación más contraria al retiro es la ambición. La gloria y el reposo no pueden alojarse en el mismo albergue. Por lo que veo, estos sólo tienen los brazos y las piernas fuera de la multitud; su alma y su intención continúan, más que nunca, atadas a ella: b | Tun’ uetule auriculis alienis colligis escas? [Entonces, viejo, ¿trabajas sólo para alimentar los oídos ajenos?] a | Se han echado atrás solo para saltar mejor, y para, con un movimiento más fuerte, penetrar más vivamente en la muchedumbre. ¿Queréis ver cómo se quedan cortos por un pelo? Comparemos las opiniones de dos filósofos [Epicuro y Séneca], y de dos escuelas muy diferentes, uno escribiendo a Idomeneo, otro a Lucillo, amigos suyos, para apartarlos de la administración de los negocios y de las grandezas, y dirigirlos hacia la soledad. Hasta ahora has vivido —dicen— nadando y flotando; ven a morir al puerto. Has entregado el resto de tu vida a la luz, entrega esta parte a la sombra. Es imposible abandonar las tareas si no renuncias a su fruto; así pues, deshazte de toda preocupación por el nombre y por la gloria. Existe el peligro de que el brillo de tus acciones pasadas te ilumine en exceso, y te siga hasta el interior de tu guarida. Abandona, junto a los demás placeres, el que brinda la aprobación ajena; y, en cuanto a tu ciencia y capacidad, no te importe: no perderán su eficacia porque tú valgas más que ellas. Acuérdate de aquel que, cuando le preguntaron para qué se esforzaba tanto en un arte que no podía ser conocido por mucha gente, respondió: «Me basta con pocos, me basta con uno, me basta con ninguno». Tenía razón. Tú y un compañero sois teatro de sobra suficiente el uno para el otro, o tú para ti mismo. Que el pueblo sea para ti uno solo, y que uno solo sea para ti todo el pueblo. Es una ambición cobarde pretender obtener gloria de la ociosidad y del ocultamiento. Tenemos que hacer como los animales, que borran su rastro a la entrada de su guarida. No has de buscar más que el mundo hable de ti, sino cómo has de hablarte a ti mismo. Retírate en tu interior, pero primero prepárate para acogerte; sería una locura confiarte a ti mismo si no te sabes gobernar. Uno puede equivocarse tanto en la soledad como en la compañía. Hasta que no te hayas vuelto tal que no oses tropezar ante ti, y hasta que no sientas vergüenza y respeto por ti mismo, c | obuersentur species honestae animo [que se ofrezcan imágenes honestas al espíritu], a | represéntate siempre en la imaginación a Catón, Foción y Aristides, ante los cuales aun los locos ocultarían sus faltas, y establécelos como censores de todas tus intenciones. Si estas se desvían, la reverencia por ellos te devolverá al camino. Te retendrán en la vía de contentarte contigo mismo, de no tomar nada en préstamo sino de ti, de detener y fijar el alma en unos pensamientos definidos y limitados donde pueda complacerse; y, tras haber entendido los verdaderos bienes, que se gozan a medida que se entienden, de contentarse con ellos, sin ansias de prolongar la vida ni el nombre. Este es el consejo de la verdadera y genuina filosofía, no de una filosofía ostentosa y verbal, como es la de los dos primeros.

Eric Erikson writes that in their search for identity, adolescents need a place of stillness, a place to gather themselves.

Es que hasta la alegría que produce la presencia del hombre a quien se ama se siente mejor a solas. Si la presencia fuera de el continua, sólo estaría presente en su constante transcurrir. Detenerla sólo es posible en los ratos de soledad

Et quelqu'un qui parle. À lui-même. Pour ne pas être tout seul.

.. Et c'était simple de lui dire de s'asseoir ; quand on pense à tout ce qu'on pourrait faire et qu'on ne fait pas ! toutes les occasions qu'on laisse échapper ! on a pas l'idée, pas l'élan ; au lieu d'être ouvert on est fermé ; c'est ça le grand péché : le péché par omission.

Even when it seems that there is no one else, always remember there's one person who never ceased to love you - yourself.

Events like this don't give me the sense of oneness others seem to enjoy; it's always been private occasions that make me feel connected to the joys and sorrows of the world, often in the form of communion with writers and musicians I'll never meet in person. Proust called these moments of unity between writer and reader 'that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

Even broken in spirit as he is, no one can feel more deeply than he does the beauties of nature. [...] Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery and be overwhelmed by disappointments, yet when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.

Even if you are alive somewhere, the absence of the other person who used to be there beside you obliterates your presence. Everything in the room, even the stars in the sky, can disappear in a second, changing one scene for another, just like in a dream.

Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

Everybody in the world wants to be understood and to have others appreciate them. Being different is scary. Solitude is pain and loneliness.

Everyone is “extremely nice”—and yet I feel entirely alone. (“Abandonitis”).

Every day solitude for a particular time period is a good way to refresh physically and is a great opportunity to rise spiritually!

Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say: when we are alone and quiet we are afraid that something will be whispered into our ear and hence we despise quiet and drug ourselves with sociability.

Every time a man (myself) gives way to vanity, every time he thinks and lives in order to show off, this is a betrayal. Every time, it has always been the great misfortune of wanting to show off which has lessened me in the presence of the truth. We do not need to reveal ourselves to others, but only to those we love. For then we are no longer revealing ourselves in order to seem but in order to give. There is much more strength in a man who reveals himself only when it is necessary. I have suffered from being alone, but because I have been able to keep my secret I have overcome the suffering of loneliness. To go right to the end implies knowing how to keep one’s secret. And, today, there is no greater joy than to live alone and unknown.

Everything pains me. The merest trifle rouses a sense of abandonment. I'm impatient with other people, their will to live, their universe. Attracted by a decision to withdraw from everyone [no longer bearing the world of Y].

Everything precious comes out of solitude.