Top 100 Quotes About Solitude
#1. From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.
Loren Eiseley
#2. 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
#3. Even the solitude, I've actually grown to quite like ... I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I'll have only the roads, the big gray sky and my daydreams for company.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#4. I'm not suffering Trisha, I've never suffered all these years, someone long back taught me by example that its very easy to be content with one's solitude. I've enjoyed mine all these years.
Dixy Gandhi
#5. My God, if any of it could be shared! But would it "be" then, would it "be"? No, it "is" only at the price of solitude.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#6. Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
#7. Now the New Year reviving old Desires.
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,
Where the White Hand Of Moses on the Bough
Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.
Omar Khayyam
#8. One moment longer," whispered solitude and the summer moon, "stay with us: all is truly quiet now; for another quarter of an hour your presence will not be missed: the day's heat and bustle have tired you; enjoy these precious minutes.
Charlotte Bronte
#9. I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living', I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
Jack Kerouac
#10. Some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school ...
John Geddes
#11. 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
#12. We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
Salvatore Quasimodo
#13. I think so much about how we read, about the nature of solitude, and of community, is changing in ways that none of us yet understand.
Dani Shapiro
#14. With so much trauma and drama in everyday life, the beauty of peace and solitude beckons like an oasis in a barren wasteland.
Jo Ann V. Glim
#15. Poetry is engendered in solitude, so what better meter for it than the clip of a buckskin horse?
Edward Hoagland
#16. Everyday, spend some time in solitude to repair the damages done by the crowds!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#17. There is a vast difference between an Apostolic life and the solitude of the Carthusians. The latter is truly very holy but is not suited to those whom God has called to the former, which is in itself more excellent.
Vincent De Paul
#18. Oh, river! darkling river! what a voice
Is that thou utterest while all else is still
The ancient voice that, centuries ago,
Sounded between thy hills, while Rome was yet
A weedy solitude by Tiber's stream!
William C. Bryant
#19. Books are where we go alone to complicate ourselves. Inside this solitude, we take on contours, textures, perspectives. Heightened language levitates the reader. Great art transfigures. And when we go back to it, it's full of even more surprises. We get older; it gets smarter.
John Leonard
#20. That solitude promotes insight as well as change," Storr continues, "has been recognized by the great religious leaders" - including the Buddha, Jesus, and Mohammed - "who have usually retreated from the world before returning to it to share what has been revealed to them.
Joshua Wolf Shenk
#21. Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.
Peter Benchley
#22. Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#23. Seek silence in the midst of the tumult, seek solitude in the masses, light in the midst of darkness; find forgetfulness in injury, victory in the midst of despondence, and courage in the midst of alarm, resistance in the midst of temptation, peace in the midst of war.
Michael Molinos
#24. Never had there been so rare a day, or so rich a solitude top spend it in.
Aldo Leopold
#25. 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
#26. I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed being able to tell characters what to say and do without negotiating with an actor.
Howard Gordon
#27. 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
#28. I exist in the depths of solitude pondering my true goal Trying 2 find peace of mind and still preserve my soul
Tupac Shakur
#29. Although I've made notes for things and even written synopses sitting in trains or on park benches, for the complete composition of things I need absolute solitude, preferably an empty house.
James Salter
#30. If a woman is to know herself, then periods of solitude should be courted, planned, and embraced.
Mary Blakely
#31. Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known ... then went crazy as a loon.
Lisa Simpson
Matt Groening
#32. 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
#33. I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
Bill Nighy
#34. We musn't forget that our bodies decline, friends die, everyone forgets about us, and the end is solitude,
Muriel Barbery
#35. I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.
Wilfrid Laurier
#36. It's a privilege to have kids and not live your life in solitude. But we live in a child-hating culture.
Sarah Ruhl
#37. Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.
Thomas Mann
#38. 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
#39. I think for many songwriter/performers, you need to go off by yourself and write the songs to begin with, but then you need people to bring them to life. So you have to be comfortable with solitude and also with being very social.
Alan Licht
#40. Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
James Russell Lowell
#41. Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.
John Ortberg
#42. 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
#43. Thanks to the night, we long for the day; thanks to the day, we long for the night! The purpose of the opposites is to make us long for something! Thanks to the crowds, we long for the solitude; thanks to the solitude, we long for the crowds!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#44. Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
Matsuo Basho
#45. Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.
Pablo Picasso
#46. But there was something more miserable still - it was the clutch of solitude at her heart, the sense of being swept like a stray uprooted growth down the heedless current of the years.
Edith Wharton
#47. I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein
#48. How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpetual solitude in the very heart of our population.
Herman Melville
#50. Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am.
Charles Bukowski
#51. In solitude we don't reject the world but have the space to think our thoughts.
Sherry Turkle
#52. She looked up at me, her eyes large with compassion, with understanding of the solitude and incivility of grief.
Donna Tartt
#54. If I'm going to be working out here in a place that at least feels like the middle of nowhere, I'm going to need access to the outside world. It's important to have access. Solitude is one thing, but you could turn into the Unabomber if you don't have some connection to people.
Jeanne Marie Laskas
#55. I descended into solitude so thick that conversations with repairmen became anxious social occasions.
Louisa Hall
#56. The important thing is to know why we want to dance. We dance a solitude that we have inside us and cannot occupy with anything. This gap, that emptiness to which we put movement is the TANGO.
Carlos Gavito
#57. 'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.
Lord Byron
#58. Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth ... It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.
Michael D. O'Brien
#59. You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.
Austin O'Malley
#60. Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.
Barbara De Angelis
#61. I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.
Thomas Merton
#62. However, the two things must be mingled and varied, solitude and joining a crowd: the one will make us long for people and the other for ourselves, and each will be a remedy for the other; solitude will cure our distaste for a crowd, and a crowd will cure our boredom with solitude.
Seneca.
#63. Solitude is a terrible thing, for it permits the imagination to picture, in detail, that which perhaps should never be articulated.
Patrick McGrath
#64. 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
#66. 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
#67. There is only one solitude, and it is great and is not easy to bear, and to almost everyone there come hours when they would gladly exchange it for some kind of communion, however banal and cheap, for the appearance of some slight harmony with the most easily available, with the most undeserving.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#68. He is a thinker,' wrote Jacquemont in his memoir, 'who finds nothing but solitude in that exchange of words without ideas which is dignified by the name of conversation in the society of this land.
William Dalrymple
#70. The living tongue that tells the word, the living ear that hears it, bind and bond us in the communion we long for in the silence of our inner solitude.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#71. It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence.
Soren Kierkegaard
#72. What do you plan to do in the land of the sleepers? You have been floating in a sea of solitude, and the sea has borne you up. At long last, are you ready for dry land? Are you ready to drag yourself ashore?
Friedrich Nietzsche
#73. Solitude, competitiveness and grief are the unavoidable lot of a writer only when there is no organization or network to which he can turn.
Toni Morrison
#74. In college there is no time to commune with one's thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one enters the portals of learning, one leaves the dearest pleasures - solitude, books and imagination - outside with the whispering pines. I
Helen Keller
#75. What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .
George Santayana
#76. It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations of solitude.
Derek Mahon
#77. The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest, humble, and self-effacing we feel, the more we suffer from solitude, feeling ourselves inadequate company.
Barbara Holland
#78. A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.
Don DeLillo
#79. Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.
Pablo Picasso
#80. Every corner in a house, every angle in a room, every inch of secluded space in which we like to hide, or withdraw into ourselves, is a symbol of solitude for the imagination; that is to say, it is the germ of a room, or of a house.
Gaston Bachelard
#81. Where solitude endeth, there beginneth the market-place; and where the market-place beginneth, there beginneth also the noise of the great actors, and the buzzing of the poison-flies.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#82. Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition ...
Amelia E. Barr
#83. Winner of the "Booker of Bookers," Midnight's Children is the novel that can be said to have done for Indian literature what One Hundred Years of Solitude did for the literature of the Americas, exciting a boom whose echoes have yet to fade.
Salman Rushdie
#85. Letter writing allows us to be alone yet connected. We need a certain amount of solitude in order to have true ideas to communicate. But few of us desire solitude all the time ... Yet solitude is what makes us contemplative and receptive, more aware of life's gifts and our own special blessings.
Alexandra Stoddard
#86. When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.
Charles Dickens
#87. I came here to be for all and with all,
and what I do today in my solitude
will be echoed tomorrow by the multitude.
What I say now with one heart
will be said tomorrow by thousands of hearts ...
Kahlil Gibran
#89. Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.
Alice Hegan Rice
#90. 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
#91. Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.
Elie Wiesel
#92. I am an incorrigible devotee to solitude, and am never so cheerful, I believe, or so unruffled by small difficulties as when I'm alone. There's a sort of obligation to be polite and pleasant to yourself when nobody else is round ...
Susan Hale
#94. That the hardship facilitates a shared solitude, an utter isolation that has been experienced before, by others, and will be experienced again, that these others are present in spirit even if the wilds have tamed or aged or brutalized or otherwise removed their bodies.
Leslie Jamison
#96. I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.
Jorge Luis Borges
#97. The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other than the sharp peaks of the mountain, the roaming cloud, the stern oak, the trembling juniper, and the passing animal.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#98. The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.
Martha Beck
#99. Not only is there no question of solitude, but in the long run we may not choose our company.
Elizabeth Bowen
#100. I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my solitude, or in the midst of the distractions that I pursue, a charming memory that does not in the least resemble the troubled pleasure of lovers.
Eugene Delacroix
