Solitude Quotes

Solitude Quote of the day

My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.

The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person’s solitude.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness.

Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

Solitude is the place of purification.

He who understands humanity seeks solitude

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

All I can say in my solitude is, May Heaven's rich blessing come down on every one - American, English, Turk - who will help to heal this open sore of the world.

In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.

One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

I am happiest when I am alone.

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

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

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude.

The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires.

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant.

The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.

The important thing is to know why we want to dance. We dance a solitude that we have inside us and cannot occupy with anything. This gap, that emptiness to which we put movement is the TANGO.

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

The person who abides in solitude and quiet is delivered from fighting three battles: hearing, speech, and sight. Then there remains one battle to fight-the battle of the heart.

Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.

The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

Time for solitude. God, I ask you to remake my heart. Fill it with what You love. Remove from it what You don’t. And mend what I’ve broken.

I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude.... the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.