Solitude Quotes

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.

He prayed for the recovery of that inward privacy which the purpose of his vigil demanded that he se...

In the wide pile, by others heeded not,Hers was one sacred solitary spot,Whose gloomy aisles and ben...

The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent...

We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness…True solitude is found in the wild places, where...

If we are to have a culture as resilient and competent in the face of necessity as it needs to be, t...

What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gow...

A society coming apart at top and bottom, or passing over into another form, contains just as many p...

Oh! why was I born with a different face? why was I not born like the rest of my race? when I look,...

I praise the Frenchman his remark was shrewd - "How sweet how passing sweet is solitude." But gr...

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the pe...

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all fre

Religion is what you do with your solitude.

Religion is what you do with your solitude.

When from our better selves we have too longBeen parted by the hurrying world, and droop,Sick of its...

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of i...

The world is too much with us; late and soon,Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;Little we...

Here must thou be, O man,Strength to thyself — no helper hast thou here —Here keepest thou thy indiv...

Solitary trees if they grow at all grow strong.

Four billion people on this earthbut my imagination is still the same.It's bad with large numbers.It...

Near me nothing but distances.

My Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have. I hesitate to go out. If you opened the little ga...

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit in...

She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetr...

Every time a man (myself) gives way to vanity, every time he thinks and lives in order to show off, ...

Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t have to be a romant...

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occa

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate ...

In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really comm...

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible...

I could not possibly have been placed in circumstances more highly favorable for study and explorati...

Dantes,rejected by all the world,frequently experienced a desire for solitude, and what solitude is ...

This sometimes happened: from time to time, Dantès, driven out of solitude into the world, felt an i...

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and de...

I loved taking off. In my own house, I seemed to be often looking for a place to hide - sometimes fr...

Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words can...

In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of p...

She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ...

I prize my downtime, count on it as a writer, a parent, a person. Sometimes I think of Woody Allen's...

Since the age of five I had been one of those people who was an indefatigable reader, more inclined ...

Though solitude, endured too long,Bids youthful joys too soon decay,Makes mirth a stranger to my ton...

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

I have often wished in vain,' said she, 'for another's judgment to appeal to when I could scarcely t...

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

If one sets aside timefor a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or ...

It is the wilderness inthe mind, the desert wastes in the heart through which one wanders lost and a...

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

In a culture in which interpersonal relationships are generally considered to provide the answer to ...

The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern...