Solitude Quotes

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.

Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovednes...

Often people request prayers for deliverance, inner healing, or physical healing. But more frequentl...

Tea should be taken in solitude.

Walking and talking are two very great pleasures, but it is a mistake to combine them. Our own noise...

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for m...

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

I've learnt that solitude is sometimes a path that leads to peace

I must stay alone and know that I am alone to contemplate and feel nature in full; I have to surrend...

The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with o...

The solitary and thoughtful stroller finds a singular intoxication in this universal communion. The ...

I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybod...

...still, I’m lucky: I feast on solitude, I will never miss the crowd. I could read the great books ...

people need me. I fillthem. if they can't see mefor awhile the get desperate, they getsick.but if I ...

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

Secret and self-contained and solitary as an oyster.

He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to c...

The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and...

Company, you see - company is - is - it's a very different thing from solitude - an't it?

There must be different kinds of loneliness, or at least different degrees of loneliness, but the mo...

My heart almost died within me; miserable longings strained its chords. How long were the September ...

For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge, I live alone, I look to die alone: Yet sometimes, when a w...

I see myself abandoned, solitary, thrown into a cell without dimensions, where light and shadows are...

I don't like crowds of any kind. A dinner party of more than six people is not, for me, a pleasure. ...

He had grown fat on solitude, he thought, and had learned to expect nothing from the day but at best...

Live by yourself and you bound to talk yourself and when ye commence that folks start it up that you...

How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said.I don't guess you would know it. You'd...

He felt if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone. How commonplace and stupid...

Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was sol...

I've seen women-and men too, sometimes-as canna bear the sound of their own thoughts, and they maybe...

I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and ...

A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

The letters released something, maybe a sense that he was not alone, that the world was a place wher...

He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had...

Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

Selden and Lily stood still, accepting the unreality of the scene as a part of their own dream-like ...

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape...

I avoid the looming visitor,Flee him adroitly around corners,Hating him, wishing him well;Lest if he...

So I lived alone. The first thing I did was take off my pants. Naturally.

I lay awake listening to the rain, and at first it was as pleasant to my ear and my mind as it had l...

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulf...

Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone:...

Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone her pleasure in being alone:...

There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible t...

So it ever must be in the conflicting scenes of life, in the long, weary march, each one walks alone...

We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a broken friendship or shattered love. Wh...

We ask no sympathy from others in the anxiety and agony of a broken friendship or shattered love. Wh...

No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother.

This was not my moment to be seeking romance and (as day follows night) to further complicate my alr...

She dried her tears, and they did smileTo see her cheeks’ returning glow;Nor did discern how all the...

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to ...

Solitude is un-American.

I know that the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of ...

The more I'm let alone and not worried the better I can function.

The fog was where I wanted to be. Halfway down the path you can’t see this house. You’d never know i...

I saw that for a long time I had not liked people and things, but only followed the rickety old pret...

I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn’t want to see any people at all. I had s...

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discour...

There are moments, such as the one that oppresses me now, when I feel my own self far more than I fe...

You once said that you would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen, in that case I could not w...

Isolation is a way to know ourselves.

Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison to you.

A: But why this solitude? - B: I am not at odds with anyone. But when I am alone I seem to see my fr...

Solitude is a virtue for us, since it is a sublime inclination and impulse to cleanliness which show...

The solitary speaks."One receives as a reward for much ennui , ill-humour and boredom, such as a sol...

But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playf...

I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it,if there were not a friend?The...

Where solitude endeth, there beginneth the market-place; and where the market-place beginneth, there...

Believe me, friend Hellishnoise: the greatest events—they are not our loudest but our stillest hours...

Healthy introspection, without undermining oneself; it is a rare gift to venture into the unexplored...

Every moment of life wants to tell us something, but we do not want to hear what it has to say: when...

These solitary ones who are free in spirit know thatin one thing or another they must constantly put...

She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned fo...

Always. At every moment, asleep and awake, during the most sublime and most abject moments, Amaranta...

Arcadio had seen her many times working in her parents' small food store but he had never taken a go...

but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that...

I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With ...

Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed because we didn't have any. It is ...

Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cult...

We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running...

Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude.

You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.

We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fr...

Solitude is obviously dangerous for people with active brains. We need men around us who have ideas ...

Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think ...

I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.

An isolated person requires correspondence as a means of seeing his ideas as others see them, and th...

So through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the ...

...freedom is of more account than the height of a roof beam. I ought to know; mine cost me eighteen...

Thinking, existentially speaking, is a solitary but not a lonely business; solitude is that human si...

Reading well is one of the great pleasuresthat solitude can afford you, because it isat least in my ...

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Alone alone all all alone Alone on a wide wide sea.

And while he sat there on the end of the jetty, he’d let the sound of the waves fill his ears, watch...