Top 63 I Love Solitude Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I love solitude but I prize it most when company is available.
Saul Bellow
#3. Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more.
Nelson Mandela
#4. 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.
Maggie Nelson
#5. I got to love solitude - to see the Moon rise and set - I had time to watch it trace the window square across the wall in silent grace ...
John Geddes
#6. I inhale loneliness like it is the sweet smell of virgin earth conquered by fiery rain drops. Within me, I'm a thousand others.
Faraaz Kazi
#7. All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.
Francoise Sagan
#10. My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and determined that love of solitude which I have retained ever since that time.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#11. This unity in love is one of the most characteristic works of the inner self, so that paradoxically the inner "I" is not only isolated but at the same time united with others on a higher plane, which is in fact the plane of spiritual solitude.
Thomas Merton
#12. Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts.
Brigitte Bardot
#13. I want my life to be the greatest story.
My very existence will be the greatest poem.
Watch me burn.
Love always, Charlotte
Charlotte Eriksson
#14. I still love to love my friends, but I punctuate those moments with solitude.
Stephanie Klein
#15. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more
George Gordon Byron
#16. I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the time to any full-blooded man that comes in my way. I am naturally no hermit, but might possibly sit out the sturdiest frequenter of the bar-room, if my business called me thither.
Henry David Thoreau
#17. I can't help you, I can only guide you, and you are the one who can help yourself.
Durgesh Satpathy
#18. Truth is, I'm generally happiest when it's just me. It's okay to be madly in love with yourself.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#19. I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#20. I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place.
Edan Lepucki
#21. Unless you really understand the water, and understand the reason for being on it, and understand the love of sailing and the feeling of quietness and solitude, you don't really belong on a boat anyway. I think Hemingway said one time that the sea is the last free place on earth.
Humphrey Bogart
#22. Time for solitude. God, I ask you to remake my heart. Fill it with what You love. Remove from it what You don't. And mend what I've broken.
Yasmin Mogahed
#24. I love the tempestuousness of oceans and the calmness and solitude of lakes. Also, sensuality that drips and runs down the spine. And I'm not afraid to cry. Tears are a form of expression, and that's sexy.
David Boreanaz
#25. Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings ... but there's something dead about it, something deserted.
Margaret Atwood
#26. you are a ring tone on the phone I didn't answer
John Geddes
#27. I would have stayed a hundred times and I would have left one time only - still, I left.
Mihail Drumes
#28. I love hotels for their solitude and comfort, but I believe a seedy one can have as much promise as a plush one.
Freema Agyeman
#29. Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime. Lead me, save me from my solitude. Say you want me with you, here beside you. Anywhere you go, let me go, too. Christine; that's all I ask of you.
Charles Hart
#30. The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.
Theophile Gautier
#31. I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.
C. G. Jung
#32. O take me from the busy crowd,
I cannot bear the noise!
For Nature's voice is never loud;
I seek for quiet joys.
The book I love is everywhere,
And not in idle words;
The book I love is known to all,
And better lore affords.
John Clare
#34. i am a woman
and i am alone,
and i cannot tell
which one of the two
i love being more.
AVA.
#35. I love and in a way need, a private secret place. It's a kind of deep obsession, but I also love to need and be with friends and the two things often need to be together ... it's a painful conflict that will never be smoothly resolved.
Morris Graves
#36. The idea of love seemed an invasion," she wrote. "I had thoughts to think, a craft to learn, a self to discover. Solitude was a gift. A world was waiting to welcome me if I was willing to enter it alone.
Kate Bolick
#37. I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.
Susanna Clarke
#38. It is in deep solitude and silence that I find the gentleness with which I can truly love my brother and sister.
Thomas Merton
#39. I feel I can give you everything without giving myself away, I whispered in your basement bed. If one does one's solitude right, this is the prize.
Maggie Nelson
#40. I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or a new story for characters you love and care about.
John Wells
#41. In the tumult of great events, solitude was what I hoped for. Now it is what I love. How is it possible to be contented with anything else when one has come face to face with history?
Charles De Gaulle
#42. I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in solitude ... the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe.
Gary Snyder
#43. 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
#44. Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#46. I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.
Christina Ricci
#47. If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the love of children. No circumstance can render this world wholly a solitude to one who has this possession
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
#48. I'm . . . accustomed to being alone. There are times when alone is the best place to be. I enjoy my own company.
Sara Naveed
#49. I finally went
where everyone goes
and I realized
I was
never
missing
out.
Meraaqi
#50. I will be free,
no lover's kiss
to bind me to earth,
no bliss of love
to counteract
actual bliss.
Hilda Doolittle
#51. I love the dark hours of my being.
My mind deepens into them.
There I can find, as in old letters,
the days of my life, already lived,
and held like a legend, and understood.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#52. CORNELIA: -Sit down. Don't leave the table.
GRACE: -Is that an order?
CORNELIA: -I don't give orders to you, I make requests.
GRACE: -Sometimes the requests of an employer are hard to distinguish from orders. [She sits down]
Tennessee Williams
#53. I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.
Iris Chang
#54. After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love
I have found you.
Charlotte Bronte
#55. I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall suffer for it ... painting is one's private life.
Edgar Degas
#56. I began to wonder if writers don't choose to love long-distance, a sure way of blending passion and prose. The love letter seems perfectly suited to the contradiction of a writer's life... the love letter may be the emblem of a vocation that demands solitude but desires communication.
Cathy N. Davidson
#57. we used to talk all night
and do things alone together
and i've begun
(as a reaction to a feeling)
to balance
the pleasure of loneliness
against the pain
of loving you
Nikki Giovanni
#58. I love that I'm alone all the time. I love sleeping next to no one. I really don't like solitude.
Dakota Johnson
#59. Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.
Sam Hunt
#60. I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau
#61. It wasn't the fog I minded, Cathleen. I really love fog. [ ... ] It hides you from the world and the world from you. You feel that everything has changed, and nothing is what it seemed to be. No one can find or touch you any more.
Eugene O'Neill
#62. I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.
Jeanette Winterson
#63. I don't want anyone to look to me, not for protection, not for happiness, not for love, not for anything.
P.D. James
