Being Alone Solitude Quotes

#1. The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.

Rabindranath Tagore

#2. Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man's being alone. It has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.

Paul Tillich

#3. Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

Alice Koller

#4. In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

Rollo May

#5. Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Paul Tillich

#6. It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

Jodie Foster

#7. Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.

Katrina Kenison

#8. The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit.

Marya Mannes

#9. She was so much better at being alone; being alone came more naturally to her. She led a life of deliberate solitude, and if occasional loneliness crept in, she knew how to work her way out of that particular divot. Or even better, how to sink in and absorb its particular comforts.

Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney

#10. Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Octavio Paz

#11. 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.

Charles Bukowski

#12. Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

Samuel Beckett

#13. The sound of darkness was certainly intricately linked to the sense of being alone but unrelated to this was the sound of the palpitations of men and women experiencing the sense of utter solitude. There was no doubt about it. This was a sound audible only on evenings such as this.

Shusaku Endo

#14. If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is evil?

Ayn Rand

#15. Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.

Celine Dion

#16. On the Sufi path, first you discover the art of being alone amid the crowd. Next you discover the crowd within your solitude - the voices inside you.

Elif Shafak

#17. Alone. It was such an insignificant word. Or it had been for centuries. He'd sought out the solitude, had slept away centuries in his cave without hesitation. And now? Now he hated the quiet.
He detested being alone.

Donna Grant

#18. I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid.

Peter Robinson

#19. Overscheduled children lose the space to simply be with themselves and learn the art of being alone. In our noisy, busy world, the importance of developing the life skill of solitude, meditation, and quietly being with oneself can not be overstated.

Joshua Becker

#20. I prize the privilege of being alone.

Carl Rogers

#21. Truth is, I'm generally happiest when it's just me. It's okay to be madly in love with yourself.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#22. I seek the city because there is nothing sweeter than not being alone in your loneliness.

Charlotte Eriksson

#23. Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.

Octavio Paz

#24. Or he could go back to the ease of solitude. It's really not so bad, being alone, never worrying about what has to be done for, or with, or in the interest of another. it's like you let your mind stay in its pajamas all day.

Elizabeth Berg

#25. I've spent all my life alone. And when you've been alone as long as I have, you realize that solitude means much more than being alone.

Dorian Zari

#26. I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting ...

Gaston Bachelard

#27. It's nice to be able to control my smell environment, and I can hear myself think better when it's quiet. It wasn't easy to become a person who's OK being alone on a Saturday night, but I did the work, I got there...

Jonathan Franzen

#28. I can be alone without being lonely. In fact, those times of solitude are necessary respite for a beleaguered soul, set upon by the pressures of life. I need to take whatever moments I can to just be still.

Steve Goodier

#29. Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

Pablo Picasso

#30. I felt I could turn the earth upside down with my littlest finger. I wanted to dance, to fly in the air and kiss the sun and stars with my singing heart. I, alone with myself, was enjoying myself for the first time as with grandest company.

Anzia Yezierska

#31. Solitude is addictive. Being alone, but not lonely, is peaceful and inspiring. It gives you the strength to go back and deal with all the nonsense.

Karen Gibbs

#32. The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.

Eugene Delacroix

#33. An end to my fear of being alone. An end to a soul's solitude, when death at last arrives. There is something in that, something in there, that comforts. Hood,

Steven Erikson

#34. He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!

Patrick Suskind

#35. I prize my downtime, count on it as a writer, a parent, a person. Sometimes I think of Woody Allen's remark about masturbation, that it is sex with someone he loves. I feel as though being alone is hanging out with someone I like.

Anna Quindlen

#36. Still, he felt lonely and fell into the trap of pretending to prefer being alone, thus leading to further loneliness in a vicious circle of solitude that young men of a certain temperament build for themselves and then inhabit. But

E.E. Knight

#37. He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

Patrick Suskind

#38. Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

Molly Haskell

#39. I love this constant motion between ' Solitude' and ' Loneliness '. On one end it's the desire and achievement of being alone ( glorious) on the other it's the utter despair and pain of being alone..

Anubhav Mishra

#40. But now, I am addicted to the peace and calm of being alone. There is something so soothing about solitude that I have no urgent wish to give it up and connect with people.

Kavipriya Moorthy

#41. Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

Hannah Arendt

#42. I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.

May Sarton

#43. I like to make a distinction between solitude and being alone. Alone signifies loneliness, whereas solitude means really connecting with yourself.

Deepak Chopra

#44. When women talk about "privacy" they mean abortion rights, and the millions of words feminists have written about "a room of one'sown" refer to psychological space, rarely to physical solitude. For most women being alone is tantamount to being deserted.

Florence King

#45. Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.

Sebastian Faulks

#46. I like being alone. I have control over my own shit. Therefore, in order to win me over, your presence has to feel better than my solitude. You're not competing with another person, you are competing with my comfort zones.

Horacio Jones

#47. But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society ... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

Harold Bloom

#48. The Abandoned Valley
Can you understand being alone so long
you would go out in the middle of the night
and put a bucket into the well
so you could feel something down there
tug at the other end of the rope?

Jack Gilbert

#49. Isolation is aloneness that feels forced upon you, like a punishment. Solitude is aloneness you choose and embrace. I think great things can come out of solitude, out of going to a place where all is quiet except the beating of your heart.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

#50. What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?

Henrik Ibsen

#51. Usually, we think that "good" loneliness is what we call "solitude," the choice of some alone-time. But I want to press on with the negative dimension, to look at ways in which a fundamental sense of being separated from others shapes who we are and why.

Thomas L. Dumm

#52. Being a lone wolf is sometimes better than being in a pack.

PureDragonWolf

#53. Solitude, the joy of being alone, stems from, as well as promotes, a state of maturity and inner richness.

Neel Burton

#54. When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.

Alfred Polgar

#55. All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.

Blaise Pascal

#56. Most Empaths do not like being alone, yet we often crave solitude and need privacy. If

Damiana Alder

#57. The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#58. The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid.

Brad Mehldau

#59. Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

Charles Bukowski

#60. Everyday brought me further away from other people, I had been placed out of the world's sight, as if in a cupboard, and I hoped it would stay that way. I developed a yearning for being alone, unkempt, untended.

Herta Muller

#61. Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have you discovered the glory of quiet time spent alone, time spent listening to your soul? Solitude brings with it gifts that come from nowhere else.

Steve Goodier

#62. But he felt the relief of being alone as well ... the forgotten solitude which measures and verifies the strength of an affair, and which, being temporary, is a kind of pleasure.

Alan Hollinghurst

#63. The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is partly a blessing and partly a curse. An artist enjoys and suffers from isolation. As solitude, isolation can nurture. It can also destroy.

Peter Schjeldahl

#64. The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.

Andy Rooney

#65. i am a woman
and i am alone,
and i cannot tell
which one of the two
i love being more.

AVA.

#66. And being alone is the best way to be
When I'm by myself it's the best way to be
When I'm all alone it's the best way to be
When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye

Edie Brickell

#67. Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

Carl Jung

#68. I'm . . . accustomed to being alone. There are times when alone is the best place to be. I enjoy my own company.

Sara Naveed

#69. But to me, it's a whole
lot more important to find something that makes you unafraid of
being alone, rather than to have so many friends that you wind up
being terrified of solitude.

Mitsuyo Kakuta

#70. I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to others ... Solitude is noncommunication, the absence of others, the presence of a self sufficient to itself.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#71. Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.

Eric Maisel

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

Christina Ricci