Solitude Quotes

Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.

I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.

Hours of solitude, hours of creation, hours of meditation. Solitude and meditation gave me an awareness, a perspective which I have never lost: that of solidarity with the rest of mankind.

Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.

As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of a mountain, instead of climbing steadily to its top.

Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.

Internally, you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life - solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing and ultimately challenge.

A warrior balances solitude and dependence.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologize for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices it—like a secret vice!

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

Not to be alone - ever - is one of my ideas of hell, and a day when I have had no solitude at all in which 'to catch up with myself' I find mentally, physically and spiritually exhausting.

It is in lonely solitude that God delivers His best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive them.

There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.

Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.

In life, periods of solitude were blessings. Dying alone was a bitter curse.

One must learn an inner solitude, wherever or with whomsoever he may be.

Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

Solitude begets whimsies.

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

Transgression is a quest for solitude

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

Thus nature has no love for solitude, and always leans, as it were, on some support; and the sweetest support is found in the most intimate friendship.

Work cannot convey the almost voluptuous sweetness of the feelings experienced ... in solitude.

Nobody with me at sea but myself.

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.

Solitude is un-American.

Suffering is only suffering if it’s done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.

Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together.

If you're alone with nothing to do, the quality of your experience really plummets.

That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart.

Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.

Being an artist is being an isolated individual.

I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.

We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must take it upon himself.

'Tis they who are in their own chambers haunted By thoughts that like unbidden guests intrude, And sit down, uninvited and unwanted, And make a nightmare of the solitude.

Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh.

No person loving or admiring himself is alone.

Solitude is one of our great superpowers... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions.

Multitude, solitude: equal and interchangeable terms for the active and prolific poet.

I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.

Coldplay frontman Chris Martin has found his niche in making the sound of solitude a triumphant experience, like Good Will Hunting: The Musical.

a basic “must” for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental.

I prize the privilege of being alone.