Solitude Quotes
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Deliberately seeking solitude-quality time spent away from family and friends-may seem selfish. It is not. Solitude is as necessary for our creative spirits to develop and flourish as are sleep and food for our bodies to survive.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Tears do not burn except in solitude.
Emil Cioran
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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.
William James
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In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.
William Mathews
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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.
Joseph Cook
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Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.
Albert Camus
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For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude
William Wordsworth
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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.
Paul Auster
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.
Witold Gombrowicz
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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.
William Blake
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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.
Seneca the Younger
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When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.
Jose Mujica
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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.
Stuart Wilde
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Ours is a long marriage, and we have found solitude together.
Carolyn Heilbrun
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More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.
Sarah Hall
