Lonely Solitude Quotes

#1. In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.

Patrick Ness

#3. It is in lonely solitude that God delivers His best thoughts, and the mind needs to be still and quiet to receive them.

Charles R. Swindoll

#4. I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen in halls of fancy.

L.M. Montgomery

#5. Solitude is never lonely. It is rather a sanctuary where one learns to draw wisdom from the company of self.

Zohreh Ghahremani

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

Santosh Kalwar

#7. When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely ... Having a big family solves that problem.

Michael Chabon

#8. I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and must bear our own in solitude. For my part, I have found that walking soothes it; and that, given luck, sometimes we find one to walk besides us ... at least for a little way.

Alan Moore

#9. My loneliness was an important part of my own little universe, not some pathological disease that needs to be gotten [sic] rid of.

Banana Yoshimoto

#10. To you, whoever you are, when I am gone - remember to be kind tonight to some lonely person. For me.

Tennessee Williams

#11. She'd rather be alone than settle just because she was lonely, but sometimes - not that she'd admit it to another soul - that choice sucked.

Donna Alward

#12. She sees how you diminish her solitude, and, more meaningfully, she sees you seeing, which sparks in her that oddest of desires an I can have for a you, the desire that you be less lonely.

Mohsin Hamid

#13. I might be alone, but i'm never lonely.

Megan Hart

#14. 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

#15. I've learnt that solitude is sometimes a path that leads to peace

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#16. If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#17. I felt lonely, and in full possession of my loneliness. It was the first time I had owned anything of value.

Ben Greenman

#18. Solitude without togetherness deteriorates into loneliness. One needs strong roots in togetherness to be solitary rather than lonely when one is alone.

David Steindl-Rast

#19. She's one in a million. And that's why she's lonely.

Joyce Rachelle

#20. I find a certain degree of loneliness not only tolerable but deeply pleasurable.

Allen Shawn

#21. He felt lonely. His solitude was thrown into relief by being observed.

Michael Frayn

#22. I'm still lonely and it's a glorification of something I'm not finished with. I don't want to be distracted from my work by other people, but the absence of it all distracts me from my work and that's why I run towards the city, to get a little glimpse of it.

Charlotte Eriksson

#23. 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

#24. To ease the loneliness of the bridges, visit them sometimes! The forgotten ones must be remembered! Create some memories with them so that they will feel themselves less lonely! Memories are the enemies of solitude.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#25. In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Charlotte Eriksson

#27. When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown.

Tony Hatch

#28. If you are lonely, you feel separated from everybody. If you are in solitude, you feel you are in contact with the entire universe.

Siren Waroe

#29. I have found no other cure for loneliness than to befriend it.

Charlotte Eriksson

#30. There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.

John O'Donohue

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

Rae Mariz

#32. Growing up a lonely only child prepared me for the years of solitude spent as a writer; years spent in the company of people who don't exist, imaginary people you have conversations with. It's a paid form of madness, this writing stuff.

Debi Gliori

#33. People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can't live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

Karl Lagerfeld

#34. Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself.

Gloria D. Gonsalves

#35. A pine tree standeth lonely
In the North on an upland bare;
It standeth whitely shrouded
With snow, and sleepeth there.
It dreameth of a Palm tree
Which far in the East alone,
In the mournful silence standeth
On its ridge of burning stone.

Heinrich Heine

#36. Cities can be lonely places, and in admitting this we see that loneliness doesn't necessarily require physical solitude, but rather an absence or paucity of connection, closeness, kinship: an inability, for one reason or another, to find as much intimacy as is desired.

Olivia Laing

#37. If only I had something to take the edge off the loneliness. If only lonely were a more accurate word. It should sound much less pretty.

Nina LaCour

#38. Lonely was much better than alone.

Toni Morrison

#39. 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

#40. Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.

Fred Rogers

#41. 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

#42. 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

#43. If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me.

Joyce Rachelle

#44. You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

Wayne W. Dyer

#45. In Solitude, the lonely man is eaten by himself.
Among crowds, by the Many.
Choose which you Prefer.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#46. I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me ... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely ... I could have used a bit more solitude.

Andrew Greeley

#47. But when she finally got the wings to fly she realized she had nowhere else to go to ...

Sanhita Baruah

#48. Solitude, what a sad and beautiful thing it is! How beautiful when we choose it! How sad when it is forced upon us year after year! Some strong men are not lonely when they are alone, but I, who am weak, am lonely when I have no friends.

Emmanuel Bove

#49. there is a difference between
loneliness and solitude,
one will empty you and
one will fill you.

you have the power to choose.

AVA.

#50. Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off
especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)

Sue Grafton

#51. Fine. If you want to stay in that chair and feel sorry for yourself for the rest of your life, who am I to stop you? But if the solitude you're so desperately clinging to ever starts to get too dull and lonely, just let me know.

Sorcha MacMurrough

#52. 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

#53. Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.

Henry Rollins

#54. The first great thing is to find yourself and for that you need solitude and contemplation - at least sometimes. I can tell you deliverance will not come from the rushing noisy centers of civilization. It will come from the lonely places.

Fridtjof Nansen

#55. Everyone is lonely sometimes, even married people. But most single women (as well as women with spouses) actually enjoy their solitude.

Sarah Mahoney

#56. I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert
a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race.

Mark Twain

#57. 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

#58. If you don't learn how to be alone, you'll always be lonely, loneliness is failed solitude.

Sherry Turkle

#59. There is no greater isolation a man may experience than to be lonely in a crowd.

Claire North

#60. A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.

Criss Jami

#61. Poems can get
sleepless too

and become

the loneliest thing
in the universe.

Sanober Khan

#62. ...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who long to be social and cannot, somehow, step naturally and unselfconsciously into some friendly group

Shirley Jackson

#63. Solace of Silence
surreal synapses
of a melancholy drone
a dream per chance
she dared not be alone ...

Muse

#64. 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

#65. Loneliness isn't a disease, it is only a moment to learn something better

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#66. I can be by myself because I'm never lonely; I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.

Bohumil Hrabal

#67. 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

#68. we aren't lonely because we are alone; we are lonely because we have failed in our solitude.

Michael Harris

#69. 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

#70. The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

Criss Jami

#71. 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

#72. I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

Paul Theroux

#73. Although I had savored my solitude, there was a big difference between enjoying time to myself and feeling lonely. I had no reason to feel lonely because Lord Krishna, my friend and ever well-wisher, was with me the entire time.

Samita Sarkar

#74. If you feel all damp and lonely like a mushroom, find the thick, creamy soup of joyfulness and just dive into it in order to make life tastier

Munia Khan

#75. People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

Sherry Turkle

#76. Prepare for a radio, for nothing is silent like the grave

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#77. I used to ski across the vast white expanses of a quiet and lonely mountaintop. In the stillness and solitude ... I pondered the mysteries of the universe, the planet, nature and of man. I'm still pondering.

Fred Kavli

#78. Lonely and isolated people who feel their solitude more intensely within the busy life of the streets. They are what George Gissing called the anchorites of daily life, who return unhappy to their solitary rooms.

Peter Ackroyd