Solitude Quotes

What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?

One of the most powerful lessons silence teaches us is to ponder

One of the most powerful lessons silence teach us is to ponder

Who says that we always have to be ready to communicate?

Solitude helps the soul remember that life andwork have two completely different meanings. It remindsus that we were created for greatness in relationship withothers, not task lists and spreadsheets.

It was either the chaos of a crowd of thoughts or the silence of solitude... nothing in between..

Silence is fine if I am on my own but it's not overly sociable if my husband is around!

Let your need draw you closer to your Creator.

You would be better off standing alone in solitude than to fake your way into standing with millions of negative minds. Peace of mind only lies in one's true identity.

We exist in the world of books.

This is the dysfunction talking. This is the disease talking. This is how much I miss you talking. This is the deepest blue, talking, talking, always talking to you.

True purpose dies when true people who are suppose to keep it alive fail to give it life

Reason has always been obliterated by the sensation of profound solitude, perhaps that is why we replace the aching of isolation with the anguish of abuse.

He found his voice in the silences, where he could sing as loud and as long as he wanted with no one to complain of it.

It was a lot more fun to get famous than to be famous.

Gratitude does not mean the absence of solitude, but the presence of a positive attitude in spite of.

There is a wilderness we walk aloneHowever well-companioned

i will forever be collidingwith a billion unnamedundiscovered stars, each of uson our own orbital paths.

The quiet wasn't so lonely if you listened to how much sound was hidden in silence.

At one point in your life you have to decide whether you want to become a sachem or a solitary.

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement.

Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way--and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.

I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I re

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occa

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apartWhere I’ll be free to have an honest heart.

Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.

We need solitude, because when we're alone, we're free from obligations, we don't need to put on a show, and we can hear our own thoughts.

Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

Never forget that solitude is my lot ... I implore those who love me to love my soli

I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes.

We enter into solitude first of all to meet our Lord and to be with Him and Him alone. Only in the context of grace can we face our sin

He craved silences and solitude. He simply could not get lost in another person’s life.

She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.''Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?

I've always believed that the only defeats and victories that matter in life are those you lose or win alone, against yourself.

Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in.

Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate to mate and predator to prey, a beginning or an end.

...since I realized that he (Picasso) lived in a self-enclosed world and that his solitude was therefore total, I wanted to explore my own solitude.

Quite alone. No voice, no touch, no hand....How long must I lie here? For ever? No, only for a couple of hundred years this time, miss....

. . . solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least in public . . . [p. 7]

There are sores which slowly erode the mind in solitude like a kind of canker.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Remember you are never really alone. Although it may feel like it for very long stretches of time.

What an ambiance, and such a pity I'm alone: Candles giving off their glow, gusts of wind and the light tapping of rain on the windowpane - a massage for the mind. And a comforting one, too.

There is no greater solitude than that of the samurai unless it is that of the tiger in the jungle... Perhaps...

You need to establish a degree of privacy and solitude in order to write

He lay in his stony crypt like his own corpse, hardly breathing, his heart hardly beating - and yet lived as intensively and dissolutely as ever a rake had lived in the wide world outside.

Kisses are a shared solitude.

No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.

Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.