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Quote by Muriel Barbery

“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.”

Author

Muriel Barbery

Muriel Barbery, born on May 28, 1969, is a renowned French novelist. Her works are known for their unique perspective and profound thinking, which have won her a wide audience. more

“He walked up to me with his heart on his sleeve, Asking, 'Where'd we go wrong on the way? For I've wandered this city and oh its a pity, They talk but have nothing to say," I told him that's true about cities like ours; Cities of footsteps and phones. It could be only me and the wild open sea, And I still wouldn't fee as alone.”

Solitude

Author:Emily Hanson

“The ingenious person will above all strive for freedom from pain and annoyance, for tranquility and leisure, and consequently seek a quiet, modest life, as undisturbed as possible, and accordingly, after some acquaintance with so-called human beings, choose seclusion and, if in possession of a great mind, even solitude. For the more somebody has in himself, the less he needs from the outside and the less others can be to him. Therefore, intellectual distinction leads to unsociability.”

Solitude Seclusion Unsociability

Book:Parerga and Paralipomena

Source: Parerga and Paralipomena

“But, wherever a man goes, men will pursue and paw him with their dirty institutions, and, if they can, constrain him to belong to their desperate odd-fellow society. It is true, I might have resisted forcibly with more or less effect, might have run "amok" against society; but I preferred that society should run "amok" against me, it being the desperate party.”

Society Solitude Conformity

Book:Walden or, Life in the Woods

Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods

“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.”