Solitude Quotes

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...

Loneliness clarifies. Here silence standsLike heat. Here leaves unnoticed thicken, Hidden weeds flow...

To love can mean 'to love oneself,' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.

But there remained a reflective solitude behind that laughter, that nagging sense of completion that...

Whenever one speaks of lonely people one takes too much for granted. One thinks people all know what...

The more we speak of solitude, the clearer it becomes that at the bottom it is not something one can...

And children are still the way you were ...as a child, sad and happy in just the same way and if you...

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

At first the solitudecharmed me like a prelude,but so much music wounded me.

We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.

Never forget that solitude is my lot ... I implore those who love me to love my soli

Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way--and if you think...

[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for on...

I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over t...

What is needed is this, and this alone: solitude, great inner loneliness. Going into oneself and not...

Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you. For those w...

And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the seeming...

It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more re...

And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in ...

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circums...

It is true that many young people who wrongly, that is, simply with abandon and unsolitarily, feel t...

it is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Natur...

There is only one solitude, and it is great and is not easy to bear, and to almost everyone there co...

I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enoughto make every moment holy.I am too tiny in this...

I love the dark hours of my being.My mind deepens into them.There I can find, as in old letters,the ...

I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough.

I want my own will, and I wantsimply to be with my will,as it goes toward action.And in the silent, ...

We never touch but at points.

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter wher...

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never...

What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in ac...

We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no...

The black land slid by and he was going into the country among the hills. For the first time in a do...

Part of me remained forever at Latitude 80 degrees 08 minutes South: what survived of my youth, my v...

One of the down-side factors to living alone is that you sometimes get overly absorbed with how exac...

Who hears music, feels his solitudePeopled at once.

I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure...

The farm is a base of operations–a stronghold. You can withdraw into yourself there. Solitude for re...

To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and ...

But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost's poems; and when you feel the need of solitude...

I wished a companion to lie near me in the starlight, silent and not moving, but ever within touch. ...

The range of human knowledge today is so great that we're all specialists and the distance between s...

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

I have not a desire but a need for solitude.

In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One ...

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

Opposites though they are, both solitude and solidarity are essential if the artist is to produce wo...

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

There is something in this January Siberian landscape that overpowers, oppresses, stuns. Above all, ...

There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of canker.

The life of this alien city was lived under the cathedral dome of the sky. People ate where the bird...

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

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inab...

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

Sure, it sucked to be lost, but I'd long ago realized I preferred it to depending on anyone else to ...

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endl...

I should have written you a letter, it was too late to make the deaths of my brothers an excuse. Sin...

With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Do...

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the ro...

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who lo...

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who lo...

...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who lo...