Solitude Quotes · Page 61

“There is no solitude greater than the samurai's, unless perhaps it be that of a tiger in the jungle.”

— Jean-Pierre Melville

Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts.

— Brigitte Bardot

The only difference between missing someone and loneliness is the words themselves.

— Madeline Lucci

There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman

— Coco Chanel

I love the solitude of the mountains. I write, take pictures and get inspired by the colors of nature.

— Deepti Naval

Everything is freedom and everything is loneliness. Make your choice and let the rest fall away.

— Ariel Gore

Finding solitude in the concrete jungle is powerful and peaceful.

— Michael Dolan

There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.

— Albert Camus

“Anxiety, the other characteristic of modern man, is even more basic than emptiness and loneliness. For being “hollow” and lonely would not…

— Rollo May

What a person is for himself, what abides with him in his loneliness and isolation, and what no one can give or…

— Anonymous

“Alone,alone! It is a fact, you hear more acutely and you see and think most acutely,when you are alone. Alone, alone! But…

— Joyce Carol Oates

A woman may live without a lover, but a lover once admitted, she never goes through life with only one. She is…

— Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

“Solitude my solace, wrapped around me like layers of golden hair. Stacks of books and I can sing as loud as I…

— Jeannine Hall Gailey

“Claire knew the flavor of solitude. It was cold as spring water, and not all could drink it; for some it was…

— Diana Gabaldon

Technology promises to let us do anything from anywhere with anyone. But it also drains us as we try to do everything…

— Terrence McNally

If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be…

— Sherry Turkle

A friend is more than a therapist or confessor, even though a friend can sometimes heal us and offer us God's forgiveness.…

— Anonymous

“i am a free man— and i need my freedom. i need to be alone. i need to ponder my shame and…

— henry miller

“Cantor illustrated the concept of infinity for his students by telling them that there was once a man who had a hotel…

— Peter Hoeg

“I don’t think that loneliness is necessarily a bad or unconstructive condition. My own skill at jamming time may actually be dependent…

— Nicholson Baker

“A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and…

— Lois Lowry

Poetry is, above all, a singing art of natural and magical connection because, though it is born out of one's person's solitude,…

— Brendan Kennelly

“The first leg of Moses' journey as a leader, then, was not to lead anyone else anywhere; it was to allow himself…

— Ruth Haley Barton

Marriage I think For women Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts That think about the thoughts, It is the…

— Stevie Smith

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

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Just because I want to be alone one day doesn't mean I want to be alone for the rest of my life.

— Anonymous

Loneliness is no fun, friendliness is every joy. just as oldness is no run and childhood is every toy..

— Ritu Ghatourey

I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to…

— Charles Bukowski

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.

— May Sarton

“To love can mean 'to love oneself,' and often love is no more than a juxtaposition of two solitudes.”

— Pope Paul VI

“...If you're going to be alone, you have the right to secrets. A right not to explain yourself, not even to yourself.”

— Angela Flournoy

Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us - loneliness is one of them.

— Laurie Graham

In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Most of the people hate Being Lonely because they dont know the power of Being Alone.

— Senoraroy

There's only two ways to be completely alone in this world, lost in a crowd or in total isolation...

— Jeff Lemire

I have always loved solitude, a trait which tends to increase with age.

— Albert Einstein

“But the solitude in Ohio is different from that of most other places. There is a certain silence to it, a certain…

— Anonymous

The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.

— Brennan Manning

The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.

— Eugene Delacroix

Loneliness is a good feelings when it is created by ourself.. but it is the most wrose feelings when it is gifted…

— Ritu Ghatourey