Solitude Quotes

Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.

What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!

Orlando naturally loved solitary places, vast views, and to feel himself for ever and ever and ever alone.

I prefer to be left alone with my books.

I might be alone, but i'm never lonely.

I have not a desire but a need for solitude.

He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!

He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.

It's solitary drinking that makes drunkards.

I place solitude in a frame on my desk and call it, the one I love.

Solitude is the rebel of the freedom.

Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.

My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.

What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

Marriage is lonelier than solitude.

Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.

I have always loved solitude, a trait which tends to increase with age.

There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the devil in private.

Solitude is separate experience.

Solitude offers a lot that being coupled or being in a group does not. It helps us learn what we are capable of.

Solitude may rust your words.

No one can endure his own solitude.

He clings to his solitude, to his affected indifference and his grown-up ways, but it's just an act, so as never, never to show his real feelings.

I believe in solitude broken like bread by poetry.

Solitude was no reason for sloppiness

Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.

No doubt about it, solitude is improved by being voluntary.

I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.

All evil stems from this-that we do. Know how to handle your solitude.

I like my solitude, and I'm a strong-willed person; I'm a very hard-to-be-around person sometimes, I guess.

And Vin liked solitude. When you're alone, no one can betray you

Isolation, but it's a good vulnerability. Humbling. I actually seek out solitude.

I enjoy so many different art forms; I don't just want to focus on acting. I love music. I love writing stories. And you need solitude to figure out your next step.

Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts.

I couldn't be a novelist for instance. It feels like a very lonely endeavor. I don't know that I could survive the solitude of that.

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

After a run of several night events, you begin to appreciate the solitude and the quiet backstage.

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am.

That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended on, in the secrecy of solitude, or the retirement of a desert.

When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.

Isolation breeds conceit.