Solitude Quotes

Risk discomfort and solitude for understanding.

Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui.

The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.

I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.

When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.

There is much to be said for solitude.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, whom I may whisper, solitude is sweet.

All alone by the telephone.

I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.

I don’t know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings

Apply yourself to solitude. One who is given to solitude knows things as they really are.

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude / And flew to the silence of sweet solitude.

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition.

As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't full of personality, I was full of solitude and solemnity. I wasn't a cover-girl type.

I am only one, But still I am one.

The world is full of noise. Might we not set ourselves to learn silence, stillness solitude?

I went to collect the few personal belongings which...I held to be invaluable: my cat, my resolve to travel, and my solitude.

Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.

In solitude we have our dreams to ourselves, and in company we agree to dream in concert.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends.

Quiet is might. Solitude is strength. Introversion is power.

I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.

I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.

If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.

All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.

Here I am, a wild beast cut off from his companions.

I love tranquil solitude.

Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form.

I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.

Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

Come into the silence of solitude, and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God.

Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

Solitude is essentially the discovery and acceptance of our uniqueness.

Solitude is not an absence of energy or action, as some believe, but is rather a boon of wild provisions transmitted to us from the soul.

There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence, a swifter and greater awareness for self-discovery.