Solitude Quotes · Page 47

I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that's becoming a very precious and rare commodity.

— Robyn Davidson

I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“What you don't do is surrender. You might retreat occasionally, but you don't give up.”

— Chris Brogan

“For her a day of pampering meant comic books, black liquorice, serious exercise, veggie curry and, above all, solitude.”

— Salla Simukka

What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.

— Marya Mannes

“We've known about the transcendant power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.”

— Susan Cain

“I didn’t mind being alone. Solitude and peace with oneself are probably the only preparation one has for death.”

— James Lee Burke

“One moment longer," whispered solitude and the summer moon, "stay with us: all is truly quiet now; for another quarter of an…

— Charlotte Brontë

People think being alone makes you lonely, But I dont think thats true. Being surrounded by wrong people is the loneliest thing…

— Anonymous

A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom…

— Michel de Montaigne

Wildness had never been a part of her life. Home, work, home, work. That's all her life had consisted of, really. She'd…

— Gena Showalter

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

— Thomas Mann

“Loneliness is painful. But suffering is not wrong in and of itself. It's part of the human experience, and in a way…

— Juliette Fay

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is…

— Thomas Wolfe

Only a great genius like the Victorian novelist Elizabeth Gaskell can be mother, wife and novelist without solitude. I couldn't write until…

— Jane Gardam

Loneliness is the worst pain in this world. It constantly eats away the person's heart, and can cause the person to hate,…

— Princess Diana

Loners, if you catch them, are well worth the trouble. Not dulled by excess human contact, nor blasé or focused on your…

— Anneli Rufus

“I am monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round to the sea,…

— William Cowper

“The problem with loneliness is that, unlike other forms of human sufferings, it teaches nothing, leads us nowhere; and generally, devalues us…

— Adam Bagdasarian

“This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you…

— Rebecca Solnit

“I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough to make every moment holy. I am too tiny in…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I think that part of being human is being alone, and being lonely. I think one of the stresses on a lot…

— Anonymous

“If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know…

— Mandy Hale

“Loneliness is just like everything else-if you endure it long enough, you get used to it.”

— Paula Stokes

Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain.

— Robert Frost

Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone.

— Anonymous

“Self-improvement is possible only through time conversion in solitude.”

— Sunday Adelaja

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them.

— H. Rider Haggard

There's just an incredible amount of loneliness as a mother, all this solitude no one really speaks to.

— Catherine Reitman

He has learned that God uses solitude to teach us how to live with other people.

— Paulo Coelho

“my favourite emotions include 'brief calmness in good weather' and 'i am the only person alive”

— Tao Lin

Isolation, but it's a good vulnerability. Humbling. I actually seek out solitude.

— Brendan Dooling

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

— David Foster Wallace

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

— Albert Camus

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

— Karl Kraus

Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.

— John D. Voelker

“With so much trauma and drama in everyday life, the beauty of peace and solitude beckons like an oasis in a barren…

— Jo Ann V. Glim

One can't live in solitude. To survive as a single family unit is not possible.

— Nushrat Bharucha

Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.

— Jorge Luis Borges