“Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.”
“Everything is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.”
“Being alone is basically being alone on a certain level in which other loneliness’ could communicate with us if that were the case.”
“Taciturn, silent, insensible to the new breath of vitality that was shaking the house, Colonel Aureliano Buendia could understand only that the secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.”
“Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe… The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass…”
“Truth uses Silence to convey her meaning to loving souls…
Just as God has made our souls prisoners of our bodies, so Love has made me a prisoner of words and speech.”