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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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.
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Here I am, a wild beast cut off from his companions.
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In solitude, where we are least alone.
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Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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In solitude, when we are least alone.
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One is inspired only in solitude.
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Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.
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More than mother and son, they were accomplices 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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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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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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Loneliness is random; solitude is ritual.
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When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.
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There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.
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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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One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
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Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.
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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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There is a solitude, which each and every one of us has always carried with him, more inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea; the solitude of self. Our inner being, which we call ourself, no eye nor touch of man or angel has ever pierced.
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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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I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.
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I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.
