Solitude Quotes

True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.

Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences

For Nature is love, and finds haunts for true love, Where nothing can hear or intrude; It hides from the eagle and joins with the dove, In beautiful green solitude.

Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

I like people. I like watching them. It's just that I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars.

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

I will be free, no lover's kiss to bind me to earth, no bliss of love to counteract actual bliss.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.

Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.

Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

So I lived alone. The first thing I did was take off my pants. Naturally.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

Most people have never known solitude.... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.

Loneliness is failed solitude.

Seclusion is the price of greatness.

I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight.

Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return.

A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.

He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

To love ourselves is to act respectfully toward ourselves, to enjoy our own company when in solitude, to honor our limits and speak our truths.

Solitude is an essential quality of wilderness.

He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.

Solitude is sometimes best society.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.