Browsing Topic Best Loneliness And Solitude Quotes

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain.

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.

When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others. Only when one is connected to one’s own core is.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

The very fine line between loneliness and solitude, reflection; being alone, always appealed to me when I was a kid.

To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

Not everyone knows how to be alone with others, how to share solitude. We have to help each other to understand how to be in our solitude, so that we can relate to each other without grabbing on to each other. We can be interdependent but not dependent. Loneliness is rejected despondency. Solitude is shared interdependence.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

People often expect the other person to respond first in a positive way, instead of taking the initiative to create that possibility. I feel that’s wrong; it can act as a barrier that just promotes a feeling of isolation from others. To overcome feelings of isolation and loneliness, your underlying attitude makes a tremendous difference – approaching others with the thought of compassion in your mind is the best way.

Friendship needs no words – it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.

The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you’ll be quite a lot!

The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

I want to be left alone.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.