Solitude Quotes

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.

He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked fo...

She formed her life day by day, taking as its materials the emptiness and panic as well as the rushe...

Mr. Collins was to attend them, at the request of Mr. Bennet, who was most anxious to get rid of him...

…she had no resources for solitude…

Added to the moral solitude of the murderer comes the solitude of the artist, which can acknowledge ...

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.

After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing mor...

I go, I go away, I walk, I wander, and everywhere I go I bear my shell with me, I remain at home in ...

He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted s...

I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the te...

We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfo...

space and silence are necessary because it is only when the mind is alone, uninfluenced, untrained, ...

Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you...

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy...

If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s becaus...

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Solitude is precious balm to my heart in these paradistic parts.

...nothing is more dangerous than solitude: there our imagination, always disposed to rise, taking a...

The things I know, every man can know, but, oh, my heart is mine alone!

The image of a cleanly, self-possessed man exploiting his solitude was not easy to come by, but then...

There is a charm in Solitude that cheersA feeling that the world knows nothing ofA green delight the...

O lead me onward to the loneliest shade, The darkest place that quiet ever made, Where kingcups grow...

Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rudeAnd fled to the silence of sweet solitude.

Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude And fled to the silence of sweet solitude. Where t...

I hate the very noise of troublous man Who did and does me all the harm he can. Free from the world ...

O take me from the busy crowd,I cannot bear the noise!For Nature's voice is never loud;I seek for qu...

In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be;Where all the noises, that on peace intrude,Come from the...

I knew that on that island one was driven back into the past. There was so much space, so much silen...

But he was absolutely alone. No one ever wrote to him. Visited him. Totally alone. And I believe the...

Think of my Pleasure in Solitude, in comparison of my commerce with the world - there I am a child -...

I was too much in solitude, and consequently was obliged to be in continual burning of thought, as a...

Everybody is a stranger, but that's the danger in going my own way.

Solitude sometimes is best society.

Relationship Time to Aloneness." Having a companion fixes you in time and that of the present, but w...

The problem with making a virtual world of oneself is akin to the problem with projecting ourselves ...

It's nice to be able to control my smell environment, and I can hear myself think better when it's q...

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think a...

It was under English trees that I meditated on that lost labyrinth: I pictured it perfect and inviol...

how can you imagine what particular region of the first ages a man's untrammelled feet may take him ...

For the first time after so many years I come back to cry aloud in the desert. Because this is the m...

The threat of rain appears to have nothing to do with Joao Elvas's desire to be alone, and one must ...

When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had...

The world is a prison in which solitary confinement is preferable.

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can...

What other knowledge will my solitude and muteness bring? What other worlds?

Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit...

Perhaps there are those who are able to go about their lives unfettered by such concerns. But for th...

Sometimes isolation can be shared.

You are right; I am not good at moving in society. Be merciful. You do not understand me; I live in ...

Allow the heart to empty itself of all turmoil! Retrieve the utter tranquility of the mind from whic...

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. Af...

It's bad to be unable to stand solitude.

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you b...

It was my journey and i had to do it without help. I had to find my own strengths, face my own fears...

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

In solitude when we are least alone.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die It hath no flatterers.

I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than ...

If you have a room which you do not want certain people to get into, put a lock on it for which they...

Solitude is a catalyst for innovation

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

These words filled me with a sort of melancholy and I was at a loss for an answer, for I felt when I...

He imagined himself lying there, unable to sleep, thinking of his mother, separated from her by the ...

Quartering the topmost branches of one of the tall trees, an invisible bird was striving to make the...

In the case of the solitary, his seclusion, even when it is absolute and ends only with life itself,...

It is in your power to withdraw yourself whenever you desire. Perfect tranquility within consists in...

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I c...

I am vehemently grateful that, by whatever means, I learned to assume that loneliness should be in p...

We don not think, in the holy places; we think in bed, afterwards, when the glare, and the the noise...

Now I have to lie on the bed for a few minutes and let the solitude gather round me once more.

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?

To interrupt the writer from the line of thought is to wake the dreamer from the dream. The dreamer ...

Solitude and reflection are necessary to give to wishes the force of passions.

If you make friends with yourself, you'll never be alone.

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

I am alone now, truly alone, and absolutely isolated from any known life. I am it. If a count were t...

From his corner office on the ground floor of the St. Cyril station house, Inspector Dick has a fine...

I...think it much more supportable to be always alone, than never to be so.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to live to yourself.

And in this we must for the most part entertain ourselves with ourselves, and so privately that no e...

A man with nothing to lend should refrain from borrowing.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends

All the same, a seductive voice from afar kept breaking into her conjugal peace: it was the voice of...

I've always had the sense that my life is run by other people. Except for a few years after Martin d...

Of course, these were only dreams. How could a sensible woman leave a happy marriage? All the same, ...

Betrayed and wronged in everything,I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king,And seek some spot...

We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, toget...

The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears ...

It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose ex...

In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonge...

Marriage is the ultimate solitude with minimal privacy.

we used to talk all nightand do things alone togetherand i’ve begun(as a reaction to a feeling)to ba...

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

Death and birth are solitary experiences. We are born alone and we die alone. When we are expelled f...