Solitude Quotes

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.

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

To find is the thing.

I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.

The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.

He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in his own existence and found it splendid.

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

I am always quiet so that I know what to say when I must speak.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.

They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.

Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery.

One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude.

By all means use sometimes to be alone.

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!

Solitude is the mother of anxieties.

Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.

Respect the child. Wait and see the new product of Nature. Nature loves analogies, but not repetitions. Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

Solitude gives you the ideas and the motivation to make you want to collaborate.

Imagination flourishes best in solitude.

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

In Silence there is eloquence.

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

Solitude is rich but seldom hilarious.

It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.

Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward, via print, for a way out of loneliness.

They make solitude, which they call peace.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge

For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone.

Writing calls on unused muscles and involves solitude and immobility.

I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.

We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.

In solitude we find psychic distance, the perspective from which we can see, in the light of eternity, the created things that trap, worry, and oppress us.

Solitude is a place where all is quiet - except the beating of your heart.

If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!

Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.

People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.

There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman

No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.