Solitude Quotes

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

I could live in the woods with thee in sight, Where never should human foot intrude: Or with thee find light in the darkest night, And a social crowd in solitude.

When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.

Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.

To rob, to ravage, to murder, in their imposing language, are the arts of civil policy. When they have made the world a solitude, they call it peace.

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.

Between madness and sanity, there is a shifting boundary. It is impossible to explain. Time slows down and you have to try to fill it. You don't have anything but solitude.

I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

What remains is solitude.

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.

races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge no authority, save that of another artist.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister.

Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less obscure knowledge of an invulnerable singularity.

If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.

That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.

It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.

This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.

Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same time.

There are times when you seek your solitude, and your solitude just wants to be left alone.

He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!

The sorrowful spirit finds relaxation in solitude. It abhors people, as a wounded deer deserts the herd and lives in a cave until it is healed or dead.

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude.

The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.

To live a spiritual life we must first find the courage to enter into the desert of loneliness and to change it by gentle and persistent efforts into a garden of solitude.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity.

To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.

I came here to be for all and with all, and what I do today in my solitude will be echoed tomorrow by the multitude. What I say now with one heart will be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts.

Cease speaking of enemies when an achievement can kindle a great light. Solitude will transmit the message better than the murmurs of crowds.

Everyone is lonely sometimes, even married people. But most single women (as well as women with spouses) actually enjoy their solitude.