Solitude Quotes

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...

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

As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought...

Alone: for the first time I understood the terrible significance of that word. Alone without a witne...

He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt...

One can acquire everything in solitude but character.

In a lot of ways, living with Charlie was like having my own place, and I found myself reveling in t...

There is a wilderness we walk aloneHowever well-companioned

Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experie...

Anyone can retire into a quiet place, wrote Evelyn Underhill, but it's the shutting of the door that...

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – tha...

I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss?Shall I ever find it, whatever it is?

I also had a dim idea that if I walked the streets of New York by myself all night something of the ...

So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of...

It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is...

I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, e...

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins for life.

To you, whoever you are, when I am gone — remember to be kind tonight to some lonely person. For me.

CORNELIA: -Sit down. Don't leave the table.GRACE: -Is that an order?CORNELIA: -I don't give orders t...

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

The only exercise that Tess took at this time was after dark; and it was then, when out in the woods...

The physiognomy of a deserted highway expresses solitude to a degree that is not reached by mere dal...

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect

If truth is what you seek, then the examined life will only take you on a long ride to the limits of...

Solitary writers come out of nowhere and do not belong anywhere. They are not domesticated or social...

The observations and encounters of a man of solitude and few words are at once more nebulous and mor...

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also,...

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perve...

A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once m...

But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present,...

Contemplation means rest, suspension of activity, withdrawal into the mysterious interior solitude i...

The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround ...

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own dev...

Their drift away from others produced a selfish privacy and they had lost the refuge and the consola...

Lonely was much better than alone.

a person can also find solitude with others, though it is more difficult

It turned out plant collecting was a solitary occupation. In the past Robert had enjoyed being alone...

One of the rocks in my soulbag, a little grey rock that I had picked up on a certain day in a certai...

Ged saw all these things from outside and apart, alone, and his heart was very heavy in him, though ...

Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company i...

He loved Shevek, but he could not show him what freedom is, that recognition of each person's solitu...

There was something lacking – in him, he thought, not in the place. He was not up to it. He was not ...

One of the rocks in my soulbag, a little grey rock that I had picked up on a certain day in a certai...

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer ...

I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot...

We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier ...

The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body, pure from all passion, going out into th...

Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes on...

But we-' she glanced at him as if to ascertain his position, 'we see each other only now and then-''...

Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever ...

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

Talk of solitude (...). It is the last resort of the civilised: our souls are so creased and soured ...

I begin to be impatient of solitude - to feel its draperies hang sweltering, unwholesome about me.

But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.

But for pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chin...

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the sol...

I want someone to sit beside after the day's pursuit and all its anguish, after its listening, and i...

For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she o...

All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense ...

...children never forget. For this reason, it was so important what one said, and what one did, and ...

Although she continued to knit, and sat upright, it was thus that she felt herself; and this self ha...

Days I enjoy are days when nothing happens,When I have no engagements written on my block,When no on...

And still the strange meaningless conversations continue, and I wonder more and more at the fabric w...

Solitude appeared to me as the only fit state of man.