Solitude Quotes

Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

The night is my companion, and solitude my guide.

It's a privilege to have kids and not live your life in solitude. But we live in a child-hating culture.

Women need a space to be creative -- creativity thrives in solitude.

It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.

Life grows darker as we go on, till only one pure light is left shining on it; and that is faith. Old age, like solitude and sorrow, has its revelations.

If you are bombarded by so many thoughts in solitude, you are in ignorance. If you are calm even amidst a crowd then you are in knowledge.

His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude.

It is essential not only to the souls of painters and poets, who thrive in solitude, but to the rest of us, too--individuals whose canvas is our lives.

We've known about the transcendent power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.

Learn the richness of solitude & quiet. That still small voice is yearning to be heard.

The association between failure, loneliness, and solitude is so strong in our culture that people often find it difficult to believe that there are some who like being by themselves.

Solitude stands by the window She turns her head as I walk in the room I can see by her eyes she's been waiting Standing in the slant of the late afternoon

Cause if you’re happy in your head, then solitude is blessed, and alone is okay.

It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.

I think if you really start practicing, the energy comes. I was always very happy and grateful for the opportunity to have the time, solitude and good health to be able to do it.

There is no such thing as solitude, nor anything that can be said to be alone and by itself but God, who is His own circle, and can subsist by Himself.

A man is never alone, not only because he is with himself and his own thoughts, but because he is with the Devil, who ever consorts with our solitude.

Sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.

The bloom of Monticello is chilled by my solitude.

He was raised by three nurses: freedom, solitude and Mademoiselle. Together, the three of them provided him with an education. From them, he learned everything he believed it was possible to learn.

If we can't even spend a short amount of time each day with God in solitude, our spiritual formation will be seriously stunted.

in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

Solitude was corrupting me.

Nothing impresses the mind with a deeper feeling of loneliness than to tread the silent and deserted scene of former throng and pageant.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

Solitude is very sad, Too much company twice as bad.

Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not alone, But doth converse with that eternal love.

I had as lief have been myself alone.

I myself am best When least in company.

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.

But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

When from our better selves we have too longBeen parted by the hurrying world, and droop, Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, How gracious, how benign, is Solitude

people need me. I fillthem. if they can't see mefor awhile the get desperate, they getsick.but if I see them too oftenI get sick. it's hard to feedwithout getting fed.

I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of them out there doing their pitiful little tricks and handsprings.

Company, you see - company is - is - it's a very different thing from solitude - an't it?

Who hears music, feels his solitudePeopled at once.

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect

He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.

I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us.

It's bad to be unable to stand solitude.

The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.

I was too much in solitude, and consequently was obliged to be in continual burning of thought, as an only resource.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.