Individual Solitude Quotes

#1. My grandmother's death had given me a heightened sense of individual solitude, of each one of us walking towards his own death, with no one able to help us or hold us back.

Francoise Gilot

#2. We all are individual and lonely, like stars which appear so close but millions of miles apart.

Santosh Kalwar

#3. It's easy to be so caught up with ministry that we neglect times of solitude, individual worship, and prayer. Perhaps you need to redesign your schedule to find time for earnest prayer.

Anonymous

#4. The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.

Albert Einstein

#5. We are going to find, I think, several different kinds of Crohn's disease.

Mary Ann Mobley

#6. Being an artist is being an isolated individual.

Asger Jorn

#7. Solitude and privacy have become more essential to the individual; but modern enterprise and invention have, through invasions upon his privacy, subjected him to mental pain and distress.

Samuel D. Warren

#8. I rode all around Hollywood listening to Donna Summer, looking out the window - all by myself - just going, 'I'm number one!' It's a pretty extraordinary feeling.

Jimmy Webb

#9. There is no free society without silence, without the internal and external spaces of solitude in which the individual freedom can develop.

Herbert Marcuse

#10. As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.

Sigmund Freud

#11. It is not speaking that breaks our silence, but the anxiety to be heard. The words of the proud man impose silence on all others, so that he alone may be heard. The humble man speaks only in order to be spoken to.

Thomas Merton

#12. Acceptance is like an antibiotic that prevents past rejections from turning into present-day infections. The need for belonging runs deep.

Lysa TerKeurst

#13. I hope that I'm able to help people when they're going through things, even if it's just to listen.

Frances Newton

#14. A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and beliefs and concerns, and reads in solitude, creating each scene from his own imagination as he does. There is no fellow ticket-holder in the next seat.

Lois Lowry

#15. I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the initial approach I'm really bad at.

Jensen Ackles

#16. Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the inner life of the persons who compose it, they rebel and seek false solitudes.

Thomas Merton

#17. Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.

John Stuart Mill

#18. The most dangerous aspect of present-day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.

Eugenio Montale

#19. And what's the use of talking, if you already know that others don't feel what you feel?

Louise Bourgeois

#20. I recognize how lucky I am as an actor. I've been working as an actor since I was 9 years old.

Sara Rue

#21. And Anatole, with the partiality dull-witted people have for any conclusion they have reached by their own reasoning, repeated the argument he had already put to Dolokhov a hundred times.

Leo Tolstoy

#22. I believe in the separation of church and state, absolutely. But I don't believe in the separation of public life from our values, our basic values, and for many of us, our religious values.

Jim Wallis

#23. It's better to make the wrong choice," my father had continued, "than to make no choice at all.

Bernard Cornwell

#24. I know you have nothing to worry about. I wasn't in love with Mark. I'll never be in love with anyone again who isn't you.

Cassandra Clare

#25. Religion ... shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.

William James

#26. If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up.

Margaret Fuller

#27. they were forced to feel strongly. And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could they be stable? "Of

Aldous Huxley

#28. Myths, legends and stories are the signposts previous generations have left us so we don't have to figure out our own personal journey in solitude!
They have to be metaphorical, because their interpretation will be different for each individual life!

Fred Van Lente

#29. Life is a game played on us while we are playing other games.

Evan Esar

#30. Legs: the symbol of my solitude, my individual path, my uniqueness. Arms: the symbol of togetherness, my connection to others, my belonging to the human race. My legs make me who I am; they create my solitary path. My arms make me who I belong to; they connect me to the world.

Nicos Hadjicostis