Solitude Quotes
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The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.
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Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not alone, But doth converse with that eternal love.
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Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked upon as a discipline or penance, but hardly ever as the indispensable, pleasant ingredient it is to ordinary life, and from this want of recognition come half our domestic troubles.
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I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
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Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
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No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.
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I have always loved solitude, a trait which tends to increase with age.
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As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't full of personality, I was full of solitude and solemnity. I wasn't a cover-girl type.
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One of the marks of maturity is the need for solitude: a city should not merely draw men together in many varied activities, but should permit each person to find, near at hand, moments of seclusion and peace.
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I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.
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He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.
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The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.
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But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.
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Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.
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I remember when I was a child... walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity and pass through my body with a jolt that made my hair prickle.
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The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
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I think I definitely like the solitude of golf.
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He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!
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I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a fire that solitude presses against my lips.
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I love the solitude of being on a plane and finally getting to read an entire book and being left alone.
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I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.
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In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
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For me, there's nothing better than getting immersed in a sprawling, epic, multi-generational family saga, and 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' by Gabriel Garcia Marquez is the most sprawling, epic, and multi-generational of them all.
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The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.
