Solitude Quotes
Solitude Quote of the day
But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.
Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
Believe me, friend Hellishnoise: the greatest events—they are not our loudest but our stillest hours.
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
Now the New Year reviving old Desires, The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires.
The more I'm let alone and not worried the better I can function.
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
To interrupt the writer from the line of thought is to wake the dreamer from the dream. The dreamer cannot enter that dream, precisely as it was unfolding, ever again.
I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of them out there doing their pitiful little tricks and handsprings.
Mr. Collins was to attend them, at the request of Mr. Bennet, who was most anxious to get rid of him, and have his library to himself
people need me. I fillthem. if they can't see mefor awhile the get desperate, they getsick.but if I see them too oftenI get sick. it's hard to feedwithout getting fed.
A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die It hath no flatterers.
After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity. I leave.
He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.
I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.
The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.
being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.
The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.
I was too much in solitude, and consequently was obliged to be in continual burning of thought, as an only resource.
Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed because we didn't have any. It is like monkeys in a zoo. They die. You know, everything needs to be left alone.
