Solitude Quotes
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Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.
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True happiness is impossible without solitude.... I need solitude in my life as I need food and drink and the laughter of little children. Extravagant though it may sound, solitude is the filter of my soul. It nourishes me, and rejuvenates me. Left alone, I discovered that I keep myself good company.
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Tears do not burn except in solitude.
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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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In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.
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There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.
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Solitude gives you the ideas and the motivation to make you want to collaborate.
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Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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I usually describe my father as a man given to impenetrable solitude. If I turn the phrase I can apply it to Johnny. Impenetrable happiness. For a long time I couldn't enter his life because his happiness, or appearance of happiness - his unending smiles - locked the door. An ingenious strategy, to surround the thorns with a castle.
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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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There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have meaning only in function of the life that makes use of them. When that life ends, the things change, even though they remain the same. […] they say something to us, standing there not as objects but as remnants of thought, of consciousness, emblems of the solitude in which a man comes to make decisions about himself.
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Ours is a long marriage, and we have found solitude together.
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That's what fame is: solitude.
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Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.
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Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.
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When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.
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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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Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.
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If you want inner peace, find it in solitude, not speed, and if you would find yourself, look to the land from which you came and to which you go.
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More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.
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Now therefore, that my mind is free from all cares, and that I have obtained for myself assured leisure in peaceful solitude, I shall apply myself seriously and freely to the general destruction of all my former opinions.
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You are an individual, and you came here on your own as a child, and you will die on your own. The fact that you may live in a community or with your family does not change the solitude of your spiritual journey. By cluttering your life with many things, you soon lose sight of who you are and what you came for.
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His ambition was to insert his dreams into the world, and if they were the wrong dreams, then he would dream them in solitude.
