Solitude Quotes
Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.
Caring for friends opens the heart, and gifts us with the privilege of sharing the fruits of our self-imposed and necessary solitude.
I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.
I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it.
Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.
She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?
In solitude, you accumulate energy to spend in crowds; and in crowds, you accumulate energy to spend in solitude!
You can't think well while people are around you! Best thoughts visit us in the twilight of solitude!
When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem.
Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth…It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.
A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.
But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.
We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.
The solitude of the poet is the uniqueness of his experience, and the particulaity of his sensitivity and imagination.
loneliness has its roots in words,in internal conversation that nodbody answers,solitude has it's roots in the great silence of eternity.
It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.
What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or to go from the solitude of writing and to having to collaborate, is almost schizophrenic.
I love tranquil solitude, And such society As is quiet, wise, and good; Between thee and me What difference? but thou dost possess The things I seek, not love them less.
Worthy books Are not companions – they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.
Everybody likes to see the loner hitched. It tells them everything is right with the world.
We must get to the place of real solitude with Christ. He is our mountain-height and our sea-calm.
But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is-solitude, intensified and deepened loneness for him who loves.
Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.
The saint and poet seek privacy to ends the most public and universal: and it is the secret of culture, to interest the man more in his public, than in his private quality.
The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.
The solitary knows the essence of the thought, the scholar in society only its fair face.
But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.
Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.
Even though I get a lot done with my solitude, and I make the best use of it possible, I always think solitude is an interlude in a period of time, which is populated by others.
Inward solitude has outward manifestations. There is the freedom to be alone, not in order to be away from people but in order to hear the divine Whisper better.
The best would be to have friends who came and went away; but if I had to choose between their never coming or never going away, I think I would choose that they do not come.
