Solitude Quotes

…my Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have.

The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.

What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

...loneliness is not a function of solitude.

The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop.

Tears do not burn except in solitude.

It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.

Solitude is considered un-American.

Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.

Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.

As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.

Maybe love won't let you down. All of your failures are training grounds and just as your back's turned, you'll be surprised... as your solitude subsides.

Solitude is not a way of running away from life ... from our feelings. On the contrary. This is the time we sort them out, air them, get over them, and go on without the burden of yesterday.

Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!

[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness.

In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone

In solitude, when we are least alone.

How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!

Remember what peace there may be in silence.

A Warrior of Light needs love. Love and affection are part of his nature. He makes use of solitude, but is not used by it.

The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us.

Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.

Isolation must precede true society.

We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak of the two in the same breath.

It would be nice to avoid the world, to leave it and all its threats and unhappiness. Not to die or anything like that, but to find a place of solitude and solace.

Retirement revives the sorrow of parting, the feeling of abandonment, solitude and uselessness that is caused by the loss of some beloved person.

The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face.

I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.

The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long for in the silence of our inner solitude.

I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.

She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.

Maybe solitude is best had in the midst of multitudes.

Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.

solitude is not absence of love, but its complement

We never touch but at points.

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.

I never feel unsafe except for when the majority is on my side.

I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.

... relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space, demanded so much time. It was exhausting.

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish.

And this that you call solitude is in fact a big crowd.

No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother.

One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)

Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?