Top 100 Loneliness Solitude Quotes
#2. She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.
Albert Camus
#3. The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid.
Brad Mehldau
#4. Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
Charles Bukowski
#5. Walking alone is not difficult but when we have walked a mile worth a thousand years with someone then coming back alone is what is difficult.
Faraaz Kazi
#6. if we don't have experience with solitude - and this is often the case today - we start to equate loneliness and solitude.
Sherry Turkle
#7. A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.
Criss Jami
#8. The rhythm of solitude, once so intimidating, began to feel comfortable. Aloneness, I was learning, does not have to equal loneliness.
John Grogan
#9. 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
#10. Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.
Paul Tillich
#12. Loneliness is a poison, but aloneness is a catalyst.
Sam Killermann
#14. Loneliness is a desert. Solitude an oasis.
Ted Agon
#15. Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
Jodi Picoult
#16. I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementia sufferer leads to a peculiar kind of loneliness.
Laurie Graham
#17. Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.
Ingmar Bergman
#18. What's a rainy day
without some delicious
coffee-flavoured loneliness?
Sanober Khan
#19. It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#20. I'm . . . accustomed to being alone. There are times when alone is the best place to be. I enjoy my own company.
Sara Naveed
#21. Although he had through the memories learned about the pain of loss and loneliness, now he gained too, an understanding of solitude and its joy.
Lois Lowry
#22. Loneliness is painful; Solitude is peaceful. Loneliness makes us cling to others in desperation; solitude allows us to respect others in their uniqueness and create community ...
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#23. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.
Henry David Thoreau
#24. Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt
In solitude, where we are least alone.
George Gordon Byron
#25. Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows through veins, through nerves and muscles; it assumes some right of possession over your body and mind; it feeds itself, and creates its own requirement. Loneliness and solitude are walls.
R.J. Ellory
#27. It's bad to be unable to stand solitude.
Leo Tolstoy
#28. my heart, sometimes singing in the afternoon, the most haunting song of solitude
John J. Geddes
#29. Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.
Pearl Cleage
#30. Not loneliness, but solitude. Not suffering, but endurance, the discovery of grim kinship with the rocks and sky. And the finding here of a harsh peace that would transcend bodily discomfort, a healing instead of the wounds of the soul.
Diana Gabaldon
#31. Maybe you've understood by now that for men like myself, that is, melancholy men for whom love, agony, happiness and misery are just excuses for maintaining eternal loneliness, life offers neither great joy nor great sadness.
Orhan Pamuk
#32. I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#33. My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.
Dwight Yoakam
#35. Cuddle
I cuddle you
i cuddle me,
i cuddle the loneliness,
in the solitude in which you left me,
your scent is in me,
in my being,
in my everything,
in my nothing.
Ivonne Yanez Saba
#36. 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
#38. One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the most various power. If one is misanthropic, and betakes himself to loneliness that he may get away from hateful things, solitude is a silent emptiness to him.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
#39. Readers and writers are united in their need for solitude, in their pursuit of substance in a time of ever-increasing evanescence: in their reach inward, via print, for a way out of loneliness.
Jonathan Franzen
#40. Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.
Anna Neagle
#41. Loneliness is just space expanding around you. Trust uncertainty. Sadness is life holding you in its hands and changing you. Make solitude your home.
Rachel Corbett
#42. Anyone who is desperate or alone will agree there is comfort in routine.
Simon Van Booy
#43. It was somehow clear, even then, that the monster had been lonely. The folds above its eye made the old face look wistful, and it emanated such a strong sense of solitude that each human standing in the park that day felt miles from the others, though we were shoulder-to-shoulder, touching.
Lauren Groff
#44. Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.
Gretchen Rubin
#45. Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.
May Sarton
#46. Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover ... or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?
David Markson
#47. You are alone,
So alone,
You speak back to silence.
People call it loneliness,
You call it solitude,
Different words,
Meaning the same pain.
Jenim Dibie
#48. Alone: for the first time I understood the terrible significance of that word. Alone without a witness, without anyone to speak to, without refuge. The breath in my body, the blood in my veins, all this hurly-burly in my head existed for nobody.
Simone De Beauvoir
#49. Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold
#50. You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society.
Henry David Thoreau
#51. I think I'll feel out of place wherever I go on earth, forever. But that's fine. I have to make my peace with that.
Laura Marling
#53. Until you experience real loneliness, you shall never know what real loneliness is. So many people feel miserable and lonely just because they ignore their inner man, create a gap between themselves and their inner man, and neglect their true self!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#55. What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
Henrik Ibsen
#56. 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
#57. Solitude, the joy of being alone, stems from, as well as promotes, a state of maturity and inner richness.
Neel Burton
#58. For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.
Isabelle Eberhardt
#59. Sometimes in utter hopelessness I put my cheek on the table like it was someone. I wanted to wake my brain up and be loved.
Eileen Myles
#60. To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.
Fanny Burney
#62. When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.
Alfred Polgar
#63. If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.
Criss Jami
#64. At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness.
May Sarton
#65. You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.
Gilles Deleuze
#66. The reason that extended solitude seemed so hard to endure was not that we missed others but that we began to wonder if we ourselves were present, because for so long our existence depended upon assurances from them.
Doris Grumbach
#67. Alone you're refinding a glittering, a clarity, you're finding your distilled self ... You think of the two types of aloneness you've known recently: this wonderful, sparkly, soul-refreshing type, and the despairing loneliness that sucks the breath from your life.
Nikki Gemmell
#68. One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day.
Dan Pearce
#69. When two people have been married for years they seem to become unconscious of each other's bodily presence so that they move as if alone, speak aloud things which they do not expect to be answered, and in general seem to experience all the comfort of solitude without its loneliness.
Virginia Woolf
#70. Solitude that throws the honest rays of perfect euphoria;
Solitude that makes me breathe in the real me;
Solitude I call it - my abode, my self made haven;
Solitude I call it - the sanguine face of Loneliness.
Debatrayee Banerjee
#71. Clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.
Virginia Woolf
#72. [A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#75. When we begin to look around us, to observe individuals and societies, and to study philosophies and religions, we realize that our loneliness is shared. Our solitude is plural, and our singularity is the similarity between us.
Tariq Ramadan
#76. Solitude was in its own way a balm for loneliness.
Diana Gabaldon
#77. Unlike the millions who casually masturbate in solitude while looking at girlie pictures in Playboy and similar magazines, the massage man preferred an accomplice, an attendant lady of respectable appearance who would help him reduce the guilt and loneliness of this most lonely act of love.
Gay Talese
#78. One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.
Karl Kraus
#79. If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me.
Joyce Rachelle
#80. But if we don't have experience with solitude - and this is often the case today - we start to equate loneliness and solitude. This reflects the impoverishment of our experience. If we don't know the satisfactions of solitude, we only know the panic of loneliness.
Sherry Turkle
#81. You can do beautiful things with your friends; you can do beautiful things when you are all alone! In togetherness, listen to the music of the crowds; in solitude, listen to the music of the silence! Be neither afraid of the crowds, nor of the loneliness, because both are blessings!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#82. Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
Criss Jami
#83. Even if you are alive somewhere, the absence of the other person who used to be there beside you obliterates your presence. Everything in the room, even the stars in the sky, can disappear in a second, changing one scene for another, just like in a dream.
Hwang Sok-yong
#84. 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
#85. I don't know why solitude would be a balm for loneliness, but that is how it always was for me in those days,
Marilynne Robinson
#86. Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.
Shannon Hale
#87. Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.
Deepak Chopra
#88. I have just now come from a party where I was its life and soul; witticisms streamed from my lips, everyone laughed and admired me, but I went away - yes, the dash should be as long as the radius of the earth's orbit - - - - - - - - - - - and wanted to shoot myself.
Soren Kierkegaard
#89. If you don't learn how to be alone, you'll always be lonely, loneliness is failed solitude.
Sherry Turkle
#90. 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
#91. But when she finally got the wings to fly she realized she had nowhere else to go to ...
Sanhita Baruah
#92. The corner doesn't mind listening to the stupid things I say;
Sometimes it's the only one keeping me from running away.
And the corner never tells me things I'd rather never know;
We became the best of friends long, long, long ago.
Margo T. Rose
#93. Loneliness is imposed by society, it kills you and solitude
is self inflicted. I enjoy my solitude
Dixy Gandhi
#94. A lonesome town, though. He who had grown up alone had lately learned to avoid solitude. During the past several months he had been careful, when he had no engagement for the evening, to hurry to one of his clubs and find someone. Oh there was a loneliness here
F Scott Fitzgerald
#95. I like to make a distinction between solitude and being alone. Alone signifies loneliness, whereas solitude means really connecting with yourself.
Deepak Chopra
#96. there is a difference between
loneliness and solitude,
one will empty you and
one will fill you.
you have the power to choose.
AVA.
#97. Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.
Dean Koontz
#98. I am vehemently grateful that, by whatever means, I learned to assume that loneliness should be in part pleasure, sensitizing and clarifying, and that it is even a truer bond among people than any kind of proximity.
Marilynne Robinson
#99. I and me are always too deeply in conversation: how could I endure it,
if there were not a friend?
The friend of the hermit is always the third one: the third one is the float which prevents the conversation of the two from sinking into the depth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
