Solitude Quotes

Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.

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.

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

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

I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night / With some friend that has the wit.

There is nothing as certain as silence, stillness, and solitude to introduce you to the secrets of yourself.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.

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.

The morning is the best time, there are no people around. My pleasant disposition likes the world with nobody in it.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

I guess it all depends on your nature. Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.

Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance.

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.

When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul.

I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.

i am a trickster who doesn't know solitude

Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude.

We need to build downtime into our lives, so that we can have solitude without feeling overcome with guilt.

Solitude is the playfield of Satan.

Solitude is sometimes the best society.

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

If you love someone, you are always joined with them--in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife.

It struck him as a bit unfair that, at the age of eight, he should have manifested the same sense of solitude that haunted him at forty-three.

The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.

they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?

Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects

The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer.

Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans.

Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.

Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

For the self-development of men and women it is absolutely necessary that they should be alone with themselves at least one hour each day-to get the blessings of solitude.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.