“Nunca estoy solo. Lo mejor es estar solo, pero no del todo.”
Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
“Spend time alone and often, touch base with your soul.”
“Observation had always meant more to me than interaction...My sole gift or talent, I believe now, was that places could impress themselves upon me, and I could become part of them with ease.”
Source: Annihilation
“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].”
Source: Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979
“Only I know what my road has been for the last year and a half: the economy of this motionless and anything but spectacular mourning that has kept me unceasingly separate by its demands; a separation that I have ultimately always projected to bring to a close by a book--Stubbornness, secrecy.”
Source: Mourning Diary: October 26, 1977–September 15, 1979
“Only in utter solitude can man be safe from the doings of this vile world! By Allah, life is naught but one great wrong.”
Source: The Arabian Nights
“Spend time with yourself. It is where everything begins. It is in this serene space of solitude that you will find clarity, peace and direction. .”
Source: Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
“There was one novel above all others, Knight said, that sparked in him the rare and unnerving sensation that writer was reaching through time and speaking directly to him: Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground. "I recognize myself in the main character," he said, referring to the angry and misanthropic narrator, who has lived apart form all others for about twenty years. The book's opening lines are: "I am a sick man. I am a spiteful man I am an unattractive man."
Knight also expressed no shortage of self-loathing, but it was offset by a fierce pride, as well as an occasional trace of superiority. So, too, with the unnamed narrator of Underground . On the final page of the book, the narrator drops all humbleness and says what he feels: "I have only in my life carried to an extreme what you have not dared to carry halfway, and what's more, you have taken your cowardice for good sense, and have found comfort in deceiving yourselves. So that perhaps, after all, there is more life in me than in you.”
Source: The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
“—Quína solitut!— murmurà aterrada y sentint que'l cor li devenía, d'improvís, tant o més ubach que aquelles pregoneses.”
Source: Solitud
“Yeah, I want to retreat from the world and ponder in solitude. At the same time I wouldn’t mind at least a couple of people pondering my whereabouts.”
Source: Am I Alone Here?: Notes on Living to Read and Reading to Live