Solitude Quotes
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I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.
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What I like is the idea of a group, even if it's just two people - the idea of solitude within a group.
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It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper.
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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.
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Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?
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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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Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
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Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods, And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt, And night by night the monitory blast Wails in the key-hole, telling how it pass'd O'er empty fields, or upland solitudes, Or grim wide wave; and now the power is felt Of melancholy, tenderer in its moods Than any joy indulgent Summer dealt.
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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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At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.
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In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.
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Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.
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Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.
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Time for solitude. God, I ask you to remake my heart. Fill it with what You love. Remove from it what You don’t. And mend what I’ve broken.
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Sometimes people who are never alone are the loneliest, don't you think so?
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This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.
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Solitude is the playfield of Satan.
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I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my solitude, or in the midst of the distractions that I pursue, a charming memory that does not in the least resemble the troubled pleasure of lovers.
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When you hear a solo piano, there's a solitude about just one instrument playing. It can be beautiful; it can be sad.
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Language... 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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All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.
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Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
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Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.
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I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementia sufferer leads to a peculiar kind of loneliness.
