Solitude Quotes

• For his was now the loveliest partOf the young poet's life, when first,In solitude and silence nurst,His genius rises like a springUnnoticed in its wandering;Ere winter cloud or summer rayHave chill'd, or wasted it away,

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Life
  • Silence
  • Summer

• The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Forget
  • Solitude
  • Cherish

• Childhood knows unhappiness through men. In solitude, it can relax its aches. When the human world leaves him in peace, the child feels like the son of the cosmos.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • World
  • Men
  • Peace

• The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread. Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her teachers - stern and wild ones, - and they had made her strong, but taught her much amiss.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Solitude

• 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

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Suffering

• It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Mistake
  • Silence
  • Darkness

• 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
  • Long
  • Silence
  • Solitude

• I think female solitude is a mental condition as well as a physical state. You can be married and a spinster. I think spinster is an identity every woman can claim, if she will... I feel like a lot of women, or a lot of feminists, joke about taking to the sea or living alone in a cottage as this kind of fun freedom.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Women
  • She
  • Fun

• I took a great deal of pleasure in it, and I still feel nostalgic about it. However, I felt that it had led me to live in a parallel world of pure invention, shut inside my solitude. Naturally, it was precisely for that purpose that it was made and that was why I took pleasure in it, but I wanted to regain body and roots.

  

  Jean Dubuffet
  • World
  • Great
  • Live

• 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
  • House
  • Space
  • Imagination

• Society is all but rude,To this delicious solitude.

  

  Andrew Marvell
  • Society
  • Solitude
  • Rude

• Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Solitude
  • Device
  • Combining

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

  

  Paul Valery
  • God
  • Alone
  • Solitude

• Cease speaking of enemies when an achievement can kindle a great light. Solitude will transmit the message better than the murmurs of crowds.

  

  Nicholas Roerich
  • Solitude
  • Enemies
  • Speaking

• One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • America
  • Creative
  • Solitude

• Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • People
  • Like
  • Sense

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

  

  Zane Grey
  • Night
  • Best
  • Silence

• I liked the solitude and the silence of the woods and the hills. I felt there the sense of a presence, something undefined and mysterious, which was reflected in the faces of the flowers and the movements of birds and animals, in the sunlight falling through the leaves and in the sound of running water, in the wind blowing on the hills and the wide expanse of earth and sky.

  

  Bede Griffiths
  • Earth
  • Running
  • Fall

• I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Live
  • Maturity
  • Painful

• Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)

  

  Edmond Jabes
  • Solitude
  • Touches
  • Preoccupied

• I had centered myself, learning of the existence of an interior motion, a shift in the levels from isolation to solitude to wordlessness to immobility. When Opel occupied that center I became the thing that swirled.

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Learning
  • Solitude

• I don’t know about birds nor do I know the history of fire. But I believe that my solitude should have wings.

  

  Alejandra Pizarnik
  • Believe
  • History
  • Fire

• What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Live
  • Society
  • Cool

• Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Women
  • Real
  • Moments

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