Solitude Quotes
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When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude.
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Solitude is Wisdom’s school. Attend then the lessons of your own soul; become a pupil of the wise God within you, for by his tuitions alone shall you grow into the knowledge and stature of the deities. The seraphs descend from heaven, in the solitudes of meditation, in the stillness of prayer.
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Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
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On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!
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Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking machine. It's all or nothing for me.
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There are degrees and kinds of solitude. … I know of no solitude so secure as one guarded by a spring flood; nor do the geese, who have seen more kinds and degrees of aloneness than I have.
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The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.
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Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.
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Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.
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Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.
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People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
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In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.
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Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart.
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This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.
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See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.
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A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
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Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.
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It is freedom, it is particularity, it is solitude that we are aiming at, and not Evil for its own sake
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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Sometimes people who are never alone are the loneliest, don't you think so?
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But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.
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He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!
