Solitude Quotes · Page 68

“She revered solitude, but only because there was the possibility of breaking it. Of communing at last with another.”

— Amanda Coplin

“I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.”

— Joyce Rachelle

...real loneliness is having no one to miss. Think yourself lucky you've known something worth missing.

— Emma Donoghue

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

— Bradley Chicho

I still find it difficult to cope with the solitude of writing. I often crave the feedback of working with a team.

— Carol Drinkwater

I grew up in Michigan. I feel like a lot of my childhood was in solitude, in the woods or making tree…

— Borns

Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude / And flew to the silence of sweet solitude.

— John Clare

Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Charlotte Brontë

“Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty . Seek solitude. If your life is well ordered your health will not suffer.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me,…

— Joshua Slocum

“There is a difference in the lone, who are free to walk as fast and far as they like, and the lonely,…

— Brian S Woods

“It’s not your fault that your brain is reduced to the size of one neuron and that it itself is being annihilated…

— Danka V

“Flee, my friend, into thy solitude—and thither, where a rough strong breeze bloweth. It is not thy lot to be a fly-flap.—…

— Anonymous

Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a…

— Edward Hirsch

Obviously a child can never conceive solitude if his parents aren't living it somewhere themselves. I don't mean that to be alone…

— Henri Nouwen

“Well -- there are two kinds of loneliness, aren't there? There's the loneliness of absolute solitude -- the physical fact of living…

— Patricia Duncker

“The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who…

— Emil Cioran

“Well…there’s only one glove. Right away, I wonder, where’s the other glove? How did it become separated from its mate? Does it…

— Linda Kage

“Allow me to give you some advice from the heart: don’t give up art, and even give yourself over to it even…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Twenty-two hours and our war begins Our war of limbs and lips and hands ... The best part of finally Not calling…

— Colleen Hoover

A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very…

— Novalis

Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a…

— Miguel de Cervantes

The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed…

— Vivian Gornick

“If the only point of jail is isolation, then I have served a full sentence.”

— Abhaidev

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

— Edward Gibbon

One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.

— Alain de Botton

“Solitude is a time when you go into a determined period of making the best of your time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone…A Journey With My Girl

— Luckybannu

Feeling lonely is just you ignoring yourself looking outward for enjoyments you already have inside (Go treat yourself)

— Billy Vincent

Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.

— Robert Fulghum

Some people don't like long bus rides, but I love them. There's sort of a sense of solitude.

— Sam Hunt

After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to…

— Elfriede Jelinek

Ideally the ultimate retreat is to retreat from the past and the future to always remain in the present.

— Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

“Unclaimed or abandoned bodies. There could be no stronger definition of loneliness.”

— David Grant Urban

“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I'm always happy when I'm left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk.

— Maximilian Schell

“The most terrifying specter that haunts the modern psyche is not death or disease or nuclear annihilation. It is loneliness.”

— Terryl L. Givens

Sometimes, it's better to be alone to know how your world goes around without the help of anybody else.

— Anonymous

Being lonely isn't just a feeling. It is proven to be bad for you.

— Rachel Reeves