Solitude Quotes
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Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything.
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A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
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J.J. did not always flee from men, but he has always loved solitude. He enjoyed himself with the friends he velieved he had, but he enjoyed himself still more alone. He valued their society, but he sometimes needed to withdraw, and he would perhaps have preferred to live always alone than always with them.
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Winter solitude - in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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I usually find myself hiking in a place that not a lot of people go hiking, just trying to find some solitude. I like being out in the middle of nowhere. Not always, but it's a good place to go to just reflect and think, and it's something I really enjoy.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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There is a solitude of space, A solitude of sea, A solitude of death, but these Society shall be, Compared with that profounder site, That polar privacy, A Soul admitted to Itself: Finite Infinity.
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How are we to reconcile our supreme duty towards memory with the need to forget that is essential to life? No generation has had to confront this paradox with such urgency. The survivors wanted to communicate everything to the living: the victim's solitude and sorrow, the tears of mothers driven to madness, the prayers of the doomed beneath a fiery sky.
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The dream remains overloaded with the badly lived passions of daytime life. Solitude in the nocturnal dream is always a hostility. It is strange. It isn't really our solitude.
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A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
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The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give No hollow aid; alone - man with his God must strive.
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There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.
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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.
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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.
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Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.
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As my own father was sick, and miserably tied to his invalid's chair, he would have been abandoned had not an old servant performed for him a so-called service of love. My mother gave parties while he was perishing in solitude, and amused herself while he was suffering bitter agonies
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He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.
