Solitude Quotes

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

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

I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

I didn't choose solitude.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

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.

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.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

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.

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.

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

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.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

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.

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

Solitude is independence.