Solitude Quotes

I like being by myself a lot.

— Aleister Black

“I think solitude chose me.”

— Gail Caldwell

I don't get to do quiet time.

— Antoni Porowski

People think being alone makes

— Mark

I want a quiet life.

— Ronald Koeman

Solitude is unquenched ego.

— Kedar Joshi

I love tranquil solitude.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Feeling alone guides the mind.

— Claude Bernard

Hey, I always say: if you want a quiet life, become a monk.

— Michael Caine

“None of us are really alone as long as we're lonely.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

“Solitude must be accepted with all its difficulties.”

— Albert Camus

“You can be surrounded by people and still be lonely.”

— Hannah Harrington

Loneliness is a mirror, and recognizes itself.

— Jodi Picoult

I LIKE to be alone, but I hate to be LONELY!!!

— Anonymous

I'm never very quiet; that's not my nature.

— Patty Judge

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

— Fernando Pessoa

Certain gardens are described as retreats when they are really attacks.

— Ian Hamilton Finlay

I'm open, and I'm out there, but I also enjoy being alone, relaxing.

— Jazz Jennings

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

— Jeanne Moreau

Sometimes it is better to be alone because it gives you something To Be Who You Are

— Keren Zhims

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

— Tillie Olsen

Poetry is engendered in solitude, so what better meter for it than the clip of a buckskin horse?

— Edward Hoagland

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

— Thomas A. Edison

Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way, whereas…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

If you use that time where you're alone in ways that bring you joy and peace, then that solitude can have a…

— Vivek Murthy

“All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a…

— Virginia Woolf

Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache so she set things up to live as…

— Anonymous

One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realizing this a mon should take no pleasure in the respect of…

— Gautama Buddha

Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing... The will to work builds all…

— John Braine

Internally, you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life - solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing and ultimately challenge.

— Allen Rosenberg

Solitude stands by the window She turns her head as I walk in the room I can see by her eyes she's…

— Suzanne Vega

I love nature, I really do. I love the great outdoors, I love the concept of quiet, peaceful solitude shared only with…

— Hilary Farr

“I was born free, and that I might live in freedom I chose the solitude of the fields; in the trees of…

— Cervantes

Unless you really understand the water, and understand the reason for being on it, and understand the love of sailing and the…

— Humphrey Bogart

“Imagine someone sitting alone in a room without television, radio, computer or phone and with the door closed and the blinds down.…

— Michael Foley

“As a child, a teen, a young adult, I developed a firm belief in my solitude, the not-novel concept that we are…

— Piper Kerman

“The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround himself with…

— Thomas Merton

“Anxiety, alienation, loneliness, emptiness, and meaninglessness are the fruits of living as an isolated subject admist a multitude of lifeless objects. Although…

— Stephen Batchelor

“Every work of art is one half of a secret handshake, a challenge that seeks the password, a heliograph flashed from a…

— Michael Chabon