Solitude Quotes

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.

What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?

Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.

Where now is Britain? . Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The bittern booming in the weeds, he shrinks From the dismaying solitude.

How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpetual solitude in the very heart of our population.

A great city is a great solitude.

There is no man can take, there is no pool can slake, ultimately I am alone; ultimately I am done.

I had drawn away into the salt, myself, a shell emptied of life.

Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.

I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed being able to tell characters what to say and do without negotiating with an actor.

There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, enthusiasm is the true part of genius.

I became something I had no name for in solitude and only later discovered the word for what I was and realized there were others like me.

Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it.

If you really want to know something about solitude, become famous.

Solitude. One knows instinctively it has benefits that must be more deeply satisfying than those of other conditions, but still it is difficult.

her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

Life is a solitude.

He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world.

I think the call of the inward life starts here. Solitude helps you differentiate, define the borders of the self. Solitude helps you figure our where everybody else stops and you begins.

It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

I write the word solitude on my wall and then below it: Do you know me at all? Are my words just air? Is my heart easy to spare?

Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.

Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [Ger., Es bildet ein talent sich in der Stille, Sich ein Charakter in dem Strom der Welt.]

In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be; Where all the noises, that on peace intrude, Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee, Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude.

The thought, the deadly thought of solitude.

Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.

He needed his solitude at times, but he wasn't a hermit. He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up company for the times when he knew nobody would be around.

A WISE MAN never enjoys himself so much, or a FOOL so little, as when he is alone.

If you want to do creative work, there are tremendous sacrifices involved, and tremendous financial sacrifices too. It requires dedication and solitude.

Jesus but people got weird when they lived alone.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

I, too, seem to be a connoisseur of rain, but it does not fill me with joy; it allows me to steep myself in a solitude I nurse like a vice I've refused to vanquish.

Solitude is unquenched ego.

The cure for too much to do is solitude and silence.

Whenever I was with a woman, I always sort of want another one. So there was always another one. I can't explain this, but it means that these women, they were not sharing my solitude.

She groped forward, hands and feet, in search of darkness, distance and solitude.

Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative.

Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer, what John Irving refers to as one genius speaking to another.

'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.

This is to be along; this, this is solitude!

From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.

Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating; is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep, one's sleeplessness.

The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.

If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced.

Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself.

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

Self-absorption intensifies isolation, but permits it to go unnoticed.