Solitude Quotes

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

I hate who steals my solitude, without really offer me in exchange company.

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls.

Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.

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.

He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

Solitude sometimes is best society.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

Solitude is independence.

In all the splendor of solitude... it is a test of myself, and one thing I loathe is to have to test myself in front of other people.

If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.

If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude.

The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid.

Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.

Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it.

True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.

People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering.

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

I exist in the depths of solitude pondering my true goal Trying 2 find peace of mind and still preserve my soul

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people.

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.

I love that I'm alone all the time. I love sleeping next to no one. I really don't like solitude.