Solitude Quotes
Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.
Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.
What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?
Technology promises to let us do anything from anywhere with anyone. But it also drains us as we try to do everything everywhere. In a surprising twist, relentless connection leads to a new solitude.
The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.
I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.
Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon." Lisa Simpson
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.
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.
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.
True bravery means doing alone that which one could do if all the world were by.
Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.
On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!
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.
A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.
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.
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.
He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.
You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners.
If you meet God in solitude, you discover the God you meet is the God who embraces all people.
Solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people... precludes awareness of one's self so that after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.
In solitude we become aware that we were together before we came together and that life is not a creation of our will but rather an obedient response to the reality of our being united.
Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear it farther than suns and stars.
I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid.
I do know that I need solitude, not only to write but to nourish myself (being, like most writers, an introvert) so that I do keep trying to write.
It is right that you have to have a tolerance for solitude. But when that solitude bears fruit, you can abandon it. You can be in the company of others.
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.
It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.
I'd never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I'd grown used to it.
He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.
