I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

For me, there’s nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational family saga, and ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the most sprawling, epic, and multi-generational of them all.

Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the...

There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai unless it is that of the tiger in the jungle… Perhaps…

Anything we fully do is an alone journey.

O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings

Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.

I knew that on that island one was driven back into the past. There was so much space, so much silence, so few meetings that one too easily saw out of the present, and then...

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

He lay in his stony crypt like his own corpse, hardly breathing, his heart hardly beating – and yet lived as intensively and dissolutely as ever a rake had lived in the wide world outside.

We are given these niches, small worlds of our own populated by only a handful, where we feel understood. Our bubble worlds bump into innumerable others daily, but there is so little cause to allow...

Kereta datang. Melompat malas. Mencari kursi dalam gerbong yang nyaris kosong. Senja mulai tua, mendung menambah tua cuaca. Gerimis turun di luar. Dari jendela muram itu bayang-bayang berkelebat. Kota-kota mulai bersolek dengan lampu. Hujan menderas...

Tried a lot,but can’t find a companion like you my dear solitude. Let us shake our hands again.

my dear,we are all made of water. it’s okay to rage. sometimes it’s okay to rest. to recede.

But we-‘ she glanced at him as if to ascertain his position, ‘we see each other only now and then-”Like lights in a storm-”In the midst of a hurricane,’ she concluded, as the window shook...

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence...

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Lonely’ is a troubling word and not one to be tossed around lightly. It makes people uncomfortable, summoning up as it does all kinds of harsher adjectives, like ‘sad’ or ‘strange’. I have always been...

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...

Living without personal boundaries is like trying to hold my breath and gasp for air, at the same time, it doesn’t work. My introverted nature requires solitary sanctuary, to breathe. My internal batteries need time...

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

Solitude has seven skins; nothing gets through any more.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.

…she had no resources for solitude…

Pasmo sempre quando acabo qualquer coisa. Pasmo e desolo-me. O meu instinto de perfeição deveria inibir-me de acabar; deveria inibir-me até de dar começo. Mas distraio-me e faço. O que consigo é um produto, em...

I place solitude in a frame on my desk and call it, the one I love.

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...

In the case of the solitary, his seclusion, even when it is absolute and ends only with life itself, has often as its primary cause a disordered love of the crowd, which so far overruled...

Let us not be bored

you know the way of the wind in the night—the desolate alleys my soul takes

A man with nothing to lend should refrain from borrowing.

There are times when a man should sleep entwined in the warm flesh of a woman, his flanks plummeting into the perfumed bedding while she lovingly rolls her sweet shoulders into his chest. Whereas, there...

La solitude qui enveloppe les oeuvres d’art est infinie, etil n’estrien qui permette de moins les atteindre que la critique. Seul l’amour peut les appréhender, les saisir et faire preuve de justesse à leur endroit:

Anyone can retire into a quiet place, wrote Evelyn Underhill, but it’s the shutting of the door that makes the difference. Solitude is a time for stripping away everything in order to focus on God....

Their drift away from others produced a selfish privacy and they had lost the refuge and the consolation of a clan. Baptists, Presbyterians, tribe, army, family, some encircling outside thing was needed. Pride, she thought....

i will forever be collidingwith a billion unnamedundiscovered stars, each of uson our own orbital paths.

There is a wilderness we walk aloneHowever well-companioned

I sat, a solitary man,In a crowded London shop,An open book and empty cupOn the marble table-top.While on the shop and street I gazedMy body of a sudden blazed;And twenty minutes more or lessIt seemed,...

It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness. Yet the lives of creative individuals often seem to run counter to this...

I prefer to be left alone with my books.

She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening. She has the mysterious solitude of...

You will loose your sense of solitude on days when all the boaters come streaming by,

I think I’m learningthat sometimes the bravest thing is not to face the world,but to turn away from it.

He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to...

The measure of your solitude is the measure of your capacity for communion.

…since I realized that he (Picasso) lived in a self-enclosed world and that his solitude was therefore total, I wanted to explore my own solitude.

Tu n’as rien appris, sinon que la solitude n’apprend rien, que l’indifférence n’apprend rien: c’était un leurre, une illusion fascinante et piégée. Tu étais seul et voilà tout et tu voulais te protéger: qu’entre le...