Solitude Is Independence Quotes

#1. Solitude is independence.

Hermann Hesse

#2. Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.

Hermann Hesse

#3. How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

Hermann Hesse

#4. Keeping quiet is how I survived.

Abbi Glines

#5. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#6. To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about going one's own way, than ever before.

Robert Graves

#7. Play is the work of childhood.

Jean Piaget

#8. But we-' she glanced at him as if to ascertain his position, 'we see each other only now and then-'
'Like lights in a storm-'
'In the midst of a hurricane,' she concluded, as the window shook beneath the pressure of the wind.

Virginia Woolf

#9. Solitude is impractical, and society fatal. We must keep our head in the one and our hands in the other. The conditions are met, if we keep our independence, yet do not lose our sympathy.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge

Vivian Gornick

#11. I'd settle for what you had to give

Mary Stewart

#12. As they dashed into the kitchen the light seemed to vanish, as if blown out by some mighty breath; the awful cloud rolled over the sun and a darkness as of late twilight fell across the world.

L.M. Montgomery

#13. Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant.

The Notorious B.I.G.

#14. Going to happen when they finally solved this mystery? No time to worry about that now. He hiked up and zipped the jeans, then found

Laura Kaye

#15. The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

Tennessee Williams

#16. As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#17. Parenthood is an equal share of awe and ah, crap.
-Galene

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#18. The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

Steve Schmidt

#19. Humor is man's greatest blessing.

Mark Twain