Solitude Quotes

• Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others. In both ways it improves our character.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Character
  • Solitude
  • Towards

• There's something about the darkness that I find unavoidably intoxicating. The knowledge that other people are sleeping and, therefore, unavailable to ruin my solitude, makes me more peaceful than I am during the day.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Day

• Now and then, especially at night, solitude loses its soft power and loneliness takes over. I am grateful when solitude returns.

  

  Donald Hall
  • Power
  • Night
  • Solitude

• For the self-development of men and women it is absolutely necessary that they should be alone with themselves at least one hour each day-to get the blessings of solitude.

  

  William J. H. Boetcker
  • Men
  • Solitude
  • Blessing

• In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Life
  • Giving
  • Memories

• I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.

  

  Iris Chang
  • People
  • Mind
  • Space

• What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Power
  • Solitude
  • Destroy

• Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

  

  Paul Tillich
  • Alone
  • Pain
  • Solitude

• I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake in the middle of the night and begin to realize, in the absolute silence and solitude all around them, that it is not only their dream that has woken them, that it is their whole way of life.

  

  Mark Lazarevich Levi
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• Maybe solitude is best had in the midst of multitudes.

  

  William Goyen
  • Solitude
  • Multitudes

• Listen as the wind blows from across the great divide,Voices trapped in yearning, memories trapped in time.The night is my companion, and solitude my guide.Would I spend forever here and not be satisfied?And I would be the oneTo hold you down,Kiss you so hardI'll take your breath away.And after, I'd wipe away the tears,Just close your eyes dear.

  

  Sarah McLachlan
  • Time
  • Great
  • Night

• In music everything is prolonged, everything is edified, and when the enchantment has ceased, we are still bathed in its clarity; solitude is accompanied by a new hope between pity for ourselves - which makes us more indulgent and more understanding - and the certitude of finding something again, that which lives for ever in music.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Music
  • Hope
  • Understanding

• We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Hope
  • Solitude
  • Bitter

• Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • World
  • God
  • Done

• In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Solitude
  • Bridge
  • Chasm

• We replace God as best we can; for every god is good, provided he perpetuates in eternity our desire for a crucial solitude...

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Good
  • God
  • Desire

• Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

  

  Abraham Cowley
  • People
  • World
  • Knowledge

• Life is the desert, life the solitude;Death joins us to the great majority.

  

  Edward Young
  • Life
  • Great
  • Death

• Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Love
  • Know
  • Conclusions

• I love hotels for their solitude and comfort, but I believe a seedy one can have as much promise as a plush one.

  

  Freema Agyeman
  • Believe
  • Promise
  • Solitude

• No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. Learning for instance, to eat when he's hungry and sleep when he's sleepy.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Life
  • True
  • Learning

• Solitude is unbearable for those who can not bear themselves.

  

  John Lancaster Spalding
  • Solitude

• In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Solitude
  • Beast
  • Inadvisable

• Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Alone
  • Solitude

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