Solitude Quotes

Think of my Pleasure in Solitude, in comparison of my commerce with the world - there I am a child -...

I was too much in solitude, and consequently was obliged to be in continual burning of thought, as a...

Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

Solitude sometimes is best society.

Relationship Time to Aloneness." Having a companion fixes you in time and that of the present, but w...

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves ...

It's nice to be able to control my smell environment, and I can hear myself think better when it's q...

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think a...

It was under English trees that I meditated on that lost labyrinth: I pictured it perfect and inviol...

how can you imagine what particular region of the first ages a man's untrammelled feet may take him ...

For the first time after so many years I come back to cry aloud in the desert. Because this is the m...

The threat of rain appears to have nothing to do with Joao Elvas's desire to be alone, and one must ...

When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had...

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can...

What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?

Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit...

Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for th...

Sometimes isolation can be shared.

You are right; I am not good at moving in society. Be merciful. You do not understand me; I live in ...

Allow the heart to empty itself of all turmoil! Retrieve the utter tranquility of the mind from whic...

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

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. Af...

It's bad to be unable to stand solitude.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you b...

It was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears...

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

In solitude when we are least alone.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die It hath no flatterers.

I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than ...

If you have a room which you do not want certain people to get into, put a lock on it for which they...

Solitude is a catalyst for innovation

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

These words filled me with a sort of melancholy and I was at a loss for an answer, for I felt when I...

He imagined himself lying there, unable to sleep, thinking of his mother, separated from her by the ...

Quartering the topmost branches of one of the tall trees, an invisible bird was striving to make the...

In the case of the solitary, his seclusion, even when it is absolute and ends only with life itself,...

It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in...

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I c...

I am vehemently grateful that, by whatever means, I learned to assume that loneliness should be in p...

We don not think, in the holy places; we think in bed, afterwards, when the glare, and the the noise...

Now I have to lie on the bed for a few minutes and let the solitude gather round me once more.

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

To interrupt the writer from the line of thought is to wake the dreamer from the dream. The dreamer ...

Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.

If you make friends with yourself, you'll never be alone.

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known life. I am it. If a count were t...

From his corner office on the ground floor of the St. Cyril station house, Inspector Dick has a fine...

I...think it much more supportable to be always alone, than never to be so.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to live to yourself.

And in this we must for the most part entertain ourselves with ourselves, and so privately that no e...

A man with nothing to lend should refrain from borrowing.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends

All the same, a seductive voice from afar kept breaking into her conjugal peace: it was the voice of...

I've always had the sense that my life is run by other people. Except for a few years after Martin d...

Of course, these were only dreams. How could a sensible woman leave a happy marriage? All the same, ...

Betrayed and wronged in everything,I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king,And seek some spot...

We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, toget...

The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears ...

It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose ex...

In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonge...

Marriage is the ultimate solitude with minimal privacy.

we used to talk all nightand do things alone togetherand i’ve begun(as a reaction to a feeling)to ba...

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

Death and birth are solitary experiences. We are born alone and we die alone. When we are expelled f...

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone...

After chopping off all the arms that reached out to me; after boarding up all the windows and doors;...

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone...

As Sicknes is the greatest misery, so the greatest misery of sicknes, is solitude...Solitude is a to...

The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires.

Now the New Year reviving old Desires,The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires.

In our household doubts more troubling than these were suffered in silence. The spiritual void I hav...

Maybe you've understood by now that for men like myself, that is, melancholy men for whom love, agon...

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anyt...

I shivered in thosesolitudeswhen I heardthe voiceofthe saltin the desert.

To find is the thing.

For a man who finds life tolerable only by staying on the surface of himself, it is natural to be sa...

If people never learned the truth about him, then they couldn't turn around and use it against him. ...

Having arrived at this point, he had found no direction in which to go save that of further withdraw...

...solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and ...

Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneli...

Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneli...

Language has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created th...

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his s...

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his s...

At life's most significant moments, we are always alone

solitude is not absence of love, but its complement

Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite val...

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry ...

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

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

What is the sweetness of flowers compared to the savour of dust and confinement?

Caught in the center of a soundless fieldWhile hot inexplicable hours go byWhat trap is this? Where ...

Much better stay in company!To love you must have someone else,Giving requires a legatee,Good neighb...

Uncontradicting solitudeSupports me on its giant palm;And like a sea-anemoneOr simple snail, there c...

When I was a child, I thought,Casually, that solitudeNever needed to be sought.Something everybody h...

Seriously, I think it is a grave fault in life that so much time is wasted in social matters, becaus...