Browsing Topic Best Solitude Quotes

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

I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

Simply wait, be quiet, still. The world will freely offer itself to you.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.

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.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.

In these moments when I truly feel fear, I create space for solitude. In solitude, I find understanding and I create solutions … In solitude there is nothing that would get in the way of creating the life that you want, except you.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

I prize the privilege of being alone.

We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one with all being.

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.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

It takes solitude under the stars, for us to be reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny.

Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.

Something of the hermit’s temper is an essential element in many forms of excellence, since it enables men to resist the lure of popularity, to pursue important work in spite of general indifference or hostility, and arrive at opinions which are opposed to prevalent errors.

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

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

Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.

My destiny is solitude, and my life is work.

In Silence there is eloquence.

Think me not unkind and rudeThat I walk alone in grove and glen;I go to the god of the woodTo fetch his word to men.

Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

if you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York than in a town like Paris or London. Because you depend so much for human relationships here on the phone. If you don’t answer your phone, you are quite a lonely couple.

Few artists thrive in solitude and nothing is more stimulating than the conflict of minds with similar interests.

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

When everyone leaves you it’s loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it’s solitude.