Solitude Quotes

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

Solitude is un-American.

I owe my solitude to other people.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

Solitude begets whimsies.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

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.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

Solitude is independence.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

In solitude, where we are least alone.