Solitude Quotes
I love that I'm alone all the time. I love sleeping next to no one. I really don't like solitude.
A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
For myself, solitude is rather like a folded-up forest that I carry with me everywhere and unfurl around myself when I have need.
Aloneness is the presence of oneself. Aloneness is very positive... You are so full of presence that you can fill the whole universe with your presence and there is no need for anybody.
As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.
In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.
Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live alone.
When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one's own core is.
You will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it.
A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.
To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.
Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult.
A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.
To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.
In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you
Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.
Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future.
It takes solitude under the stars, for us to be reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny.
a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Solitude without togetherness deteriorates into loneliness. One needs strong roots in togetherness to be solitary rather than lonely when one is alone.
It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in the good ordering of the mind, the realm of your own.
Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.
The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.
The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.
We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so we tell ourselves. But it's a long way from the morning to the evening.
On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.
