Solitude Quotes

• I like solitude. I'm very good at being disconnected. I do a lot of disappearing. People who know me go, 'Oh yeah, Mailman, she's gone into her cave again.' I'm like that, a bit of a hibernating bear. Like that crocodile that just sits there in the water and doesn't do much. I was always a bit of a dreamer as a kid, so that hasn't changed.

  

  Deborah Mailman
  • People
  • Good
  • She

• The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Real
  • Solitude
  • Friendships

• My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.

  

  James Patterson
  • Solitude

• I'm learning not to hold on so tightly to my solitude. It's not an economical way to work. A driver would call it 'white-knuckling.' If you're holding on to the wheel so tightly, it's gonna lock up your driving. Releasing myself from trying to control everything has been part of growing up.

  

  Ben Foster
  • Up
  • Work
  • Trying

• This world was created from God's fear of solitude. In other words, us, the creatures, have no other meaning but to distract the Creator. Poor clowns of the absolute, we forget that we live dramas for the boredom of a spectator, whose claps have never reached the ears of a mortal.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • World
  • God
  • Live

• Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • World
  • Solitude

• Those moments of solitude and exhibiting a mental breakdown, and how you do that physically and without it being too obvious, but being relatively settled but relatively intense. There are some intense moments in there that sort of pepper his breakdown.

  

  Elijah Wood
  • Moments
  • Intense
  • Breakdown

• I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.

  

  Jeff Lindsay
  • Work
  • Solitude

• Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • People
  • World
  • Loner

• Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Earth

• Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.

  

  Bradley Chicho
  • Rock
  • Mountain
  • Grit

• Life consists Of propositions about life. The human Revery is a solitude in which We compose these propositions, torn by dreams, By the terrible incantations of defeats And by the fear that the defeats and the dreams are one. The whole race is a poet that writes down The eccentric propositions of its fate.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Fate

• A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

  

  Alan Parker
  • Solitude

• After a youth and manhood passed half in unutterable misery and half in dreary solitude, I have for the first time found what I can truly love--I have found you.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Youth
  • Manhood
  • Dreary

• Writers want to talk. They can't wait to tell you what they've been thinking. And because they've been in solitude, they've had some fairly decent thoughts.

  

  Mariella Frostrup
  • Thinking
  • Thoughts
  • Solitude

• One would think America big enough to set aside wilderness preserves for the many of our citizens who seek to escape the incessant crowd, to search for solace in solitude amidst a sanctuary far removed from the banality of beer ads and cigarette commercials.

  

  Frank Church
  • Thinking
  • Enough
  • Beer

• The myth of my solitude makes me laugh.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • Solitude

• I remember when I was a child... walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity and pass through my body with a jolt that made my hair prickle.

  

  Marilynne Robinson
  • Remember
  • Feeling
  • Hair

• Apply yourself to solitude. One who is given to solitude knows things as they really are.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Solitude
  • Give
  • Apply

• Solitude is the place of purification.

  

  Martin Buber
  • Solitude

• Growing up a lonely only child prepared me for the years of solitude spent as a writer; years spent in the company of people who don't exist, imaginary people you have conversations with. It's a paid form of madness, this writing stuff.

  

  Debi Gliori
  • People
  • Up
  • Writing

• I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting...

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Life
  • Live
  • Dream

• I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

  

  Catie Curtis
  • Writing
  • Needs
  • Hard

• Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Society
  • Solitude
  • Aspirations

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