Solitude Quotes

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

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

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

I really do work in solitude.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

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

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

I owe my solitude to other people.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

I like peace and solitude and silence.

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

Solitude is the place of purification.

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.

Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

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

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.

Solitude is independence.

My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?

Solitude is un-American.

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

I didn't choose solitude.

I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

Solitude begets whimsies.

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.

I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.

Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

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

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.