Solitude Quotes
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The things men come to eat when they are alone are, I suppose, not much stranger than the men themselves.... A writer years ago told me of living for five months on hen mash.
M. F. K. Fisher -
I'm afraid my closely guarded solitude causes some hurt feelings now and then. But how to explain, without wounding someone, that you want to be wholly in the world you are writing about, that it would take two days to get the visitor's voice out of the house so that you could listen to your own characters again?
Margaret Bourke-White
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Transgression is a quest for solitude.
Adam Phillips -
Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.
William Shakespeare -
When the moon shines very brilliantly, a solitude and stillness seem to proceed from her that influence even crowded places full of life.
Charles Dickens -
I do not want to be admired. I want to give, to be given, and solitude in which to unfold my possessions.
Virginia Woolf
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Unless you really understand the water, and understand the reason for being on it, and understand the love of sailing and the feeling of quietness and solitude, you don't really belong on a boat anyway. I think Hemingway said one time that the sea is the last free place on earth.
Humphrey Bogart -
I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.
Witold Gombrowicz -
Religion, therefore, as I now ask you arbitrarily to take it, shall mean for us the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine. Since the relation may be either moral, physical, or ritual, it is evident that out of religion in the sense in which we take it, theologies, philosophies, and ecclesiastical organizations may secondarily grow.
William James -
Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
Jane Austen -
Solitude is independence.
Hermann Hesse
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As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton -
Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach -
I believe in solitude broken like bread by poetry.
Anne Hebert -
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
William James -
It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.
Wanda Koop -
I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to others. . . . Solitude is noncommunication, the absence of others, the presence of a self sufficient to itself.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
Jules Verne -
Nothing could be more pleasant than to live in solitude, enjoy the spectacle of nature, and occasionally read some book.
Nikolai Gogol -
Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.
Alice Hegan Rice -
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.
Tom Hanks