Solitude Quotes
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The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.
James Russell Lowell -
The artist is lonesome and admits his solitude.
Elfriede Jelinek
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It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.
Patrick Ness -
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.
Laurie Graham -
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.
Paul Tillich -
The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it helps), but the fact that no real writers ever lay down anything real in public-they work in solitude, they think hard, and their thoughts are rarely nice or 'friendly.'
Andrei Codrescu -
Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.
Augusten Burroughs -
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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The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.
Albert Einstein -
I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.
Eric Clapton Blind Faith -
Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability.
Elif Safak -
I sometimes doubt whether even the friends whose kind thoughts turned downwards me that evening from the distant South and West could realize how cheerful is the recollection of the Christmas spent in the solitude and cold of the desert.
Aurel Stein -
Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.
Fernando Pessoa -
Solitude is the playfield of Satan.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
James Russell Lowell -
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 -
Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows through veins, through nerves and muscles; it assumes some right of possession over your body and mind; it feeds itself, and creates its own requirement. Loneliness and solitude are walls.
Roger Jon Ellory -
Being a writer usually entails a fairly quiet life. However much travel one might do, however many tours and appearances, the job entails solitude: long hours in libraries, long hours at a desk.
Jill Paton Walsh -
'Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.'
Edward Abbey -
No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.
Anna Neagle
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On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!
Friedrich Nietzsche -
Now and then, especially at night, solitude loses its soft power and loneliness takes over. I am grateful when solitude returns.
Donald Hall -
I had centered myself, learning of the existence of an interior motion, a shift in the levels from isolation to solitude to wordlessness to immobility. When Opel occupied that center I became the thing that swirled.
Don DeLillo -
I have always loved solitude, a trait which tends to increase with age.
Albert Einstein