Solitude Quotes
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Solitude is a wonderful thing in two ways. First, it allows a man to be with himself, and second, it prevents him being with others.
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The important thing is to know why we want to dance. We dance a solitude that we have inside us and cannot occupy with anything. This gap, that emptiness to which we put movement is the TANGO.
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In a cool solitude of trees Where leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at ease, New rhythms in the soul begin.
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Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.
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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.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.
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But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.
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Here I am, a wild beast cut off from his companions.
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There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.
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A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
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More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.
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You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally.
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She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.
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Tears do not burn except in solitude.
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I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night / With some friend that has the wit.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.
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I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.
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Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity without any necessary excitement of the sense. Accordingly, we find that imagination is active just in proportion as our sense are not excited by external objects. A long period of solitude, whether in prison or in a sick room; quiet, twilight, darkness-these are the things that promote its activity; and under their influence it comes into play of itself.
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It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.
