Solitude Quotes

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

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

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.

In solitude, be a multitude to thyself.

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.

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.

One is inspired only in solitude.

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.

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

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

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

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.

I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.

The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.

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

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

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

In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Solitude is bearable only with God.

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.

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.

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!

Solitude is a catalyst for innovation

And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.

Everyday, spend some time in solitude to repair the damages done by the crowds!

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

You could concentrate much more deeply when you were alone with agony.

Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.

I inhale loneliness like it is the sweet smell of virgin earth conquered by fiery rain drops. Within me, I'm a thousand others.

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

I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.

I live now in solitude and am able to use my time reflecting on the past and preparing for death. I cannot put away the thought of the Indians and in my ambition I fly to the Rockies.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.

The bitter pinecone may be eaten, The mist on high give nourishment. The whole world takes to go-and-getting; My way alone is difficult.

A room of one's own isn't nearly enough. A house, or, best, an island of one's own.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

My writing method is to sit in a very small hut absolutely alone. I write in total solitude. And I write on paper, on hand, and then it gets typed. Normal for me.