Solitude Quotes
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In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.
Alexis de Tocqueville
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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
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Emily Dickinson has haunted my life - her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a crush on that spinster in white, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own.
Jerome Charyn
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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.
William Allingham
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But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.
Anna Neagle
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Sometimes people who are never alone are the loneliest, don't you think so?
A. I. Bezzerides
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My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.
Warsan Shire
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Whatever we may do, excess will always keep its place in the heart of man, in the place where solitude is found. We all carry within us our places of exile, our crimes and our ravages. But our task is not to unleash them on the world; it is to fight them in ourselves and in others.
Albert Camus
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How is it possible not to feel that there is communication between our solitude as a dreamer and the solitudes of childhood? And it is no accident that, in a tranquil reverie, we often follow the slope which returns us to our childhood solitudes.
Gaston Bachelard
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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?
David Markson
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Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not alone, But doth converse with that eternal love.
William Drummond
