Solitude Quotes

But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.

After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you.

I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.

That's what fame is: solitude.

To seek solitude like a wild animal. That is my only ambition.

I think so much about how we read, about the nature of solitude, and of community, is changing in ways that none of us yet understand.

A blind man. I can stare at him ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it? No, he is in a great solitude. O, strange joy, to gaze my fill at a stranger's face. No, my thirst is greater than before.

I really do work in solitude.

What others regard as retreat from them or rejection of them is not those things at all but instead a breeding ground for greater friendship, a culture for deeper involvement, eventually, with them.

This solitude opressed her; she was accustomed to have her thoughts confirmed by others or, at all events, contradicted; it was too dreadful not to know whether she was thinking right or wrong.

Poetry is engendered in solitude, so what better meter for it than the clip of a buckskin horse?

O! lost to virtue, lost to manly thought, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul! Who think it solitude to be alone.

After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.

You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.

Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.

The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore.

I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude.

There is a solitude of space. A solitude of sea. A solitude of death, but these societies shall be compared with that profounder site-that polar privacy. A soul admitted to itself--Finite infinity.

A man by himself is in bad company.

The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.

Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.

Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars.

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

I feel most real when alone, even most alive when alone. Better to say that the liveliness of companionship and the liveliness of solitude differ, and the latter is never as exhausting as the former.

But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.

He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

It is important to have a certain amount of solitude just to clear your circuits. You will find that you can be very happy just being by yourself. Go to new places. It will cleanse your spirit.

I love hotels for their solitude and comfort, but I believe a seedy one can have as much promise as a plush one.

Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.

In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

There is no solitude in nature.

Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.

Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

Goodbye, you who are, for me, the postmarks again of shattered towns--Xenia, Burnt Cabins, Hornell-- their loneliness given away in poems, only their solitude kept.

Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone

I'm not collegial, I don't hang out. I'm soloist, I like my solitude, I don't really hang around with comedians.

To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.

If he must be alone, he would make solitude his armor.

Ritual which could entail a wedding or brushing one's teeth goes in the direction of life. Through it we reconcile our barbed solitude with rushing, irreducible conditions of life.

Aloneness, like life, becomes more interesting when you realize it's a present.

In solitude a dialogue always arises, because even in solitude there are always two.

Motherhood rarely allows for solitude, yet it begets its own kind of isolation: from one's past, from one's youth, from the women we once thought we were and would become.

We have the divinity of our great misery. And our solitude, with its toilsome ideas, tears and laughter, is fatally divine.

Solitude is an essential element for the spiritual health of a child. If we only stimulate our children - keep them busy with endless stories with no space to be alone - that's not good.

In solitude we become aware that our worth is not the same as our usefulness.

Obviously a child can never conceive solitude if his parents aren't living it somewhere themselves. I don't mean that to be alone you have to get down on your knees for an hour in a yoga posture.

Solitude, community, and ministry are certainly not just for celibates! Celibates also have a hard time keeping up.

There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows.