Solitude Quotes

Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent." Bill Clinton "The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.

Then never less alone than when alone.

The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality must be affirmed.

Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.

Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a 'builder-upper.

We walk alone in the world.

It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.

... be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.

I implore those who love me to love my solitude.

It brought back to mind the injustice I spoke of, the solitude that oppresses women intent on defending their own destinies, their own dreams, their own mistakes.

If you would live innocently, seek solitude.

Many people spend the ends of their lives alone, and probably a lot of years in the middle of their lives, and I'm glad I had the opportunity to experience the rewards of solitude.

God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or herself in love, which is a sincere gift of self.

Uncontradicting solitude Supports me on its giant palm; And like a sea-anemone Or simple snail, there cautiously Unfolds, emerges, what I am.

In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude.

To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife.

It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.

Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.

By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.

It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations of solitude.

Community always calls us back to solitude, and solitude always calls us to community. Community and solitude, both, are essential elements of ministry and witnessing.

Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.

Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.

It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.

I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall suffer for it... painting is one's private life.

And being alone is the best way to be When I'm by myself it's the best way to be When I'm all alone it's the best way to be When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye

Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)

Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.

In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.

The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn't really our solitude.

In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.

'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.

You have to free yourself from your mental conditioning through association with the holy, through doing good works, through meditating, through laughter, through love and through solitude.

Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.

Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.

One is inspired only in solitude.

Not only is there no question of solitude, but in the long run we may not choose our company.

Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.

Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.