Solitude Quotes · Page 72

Better, Cilla thought, to be alone on a quiet night than to be alone in a crowd. Much better.

— Nora Roberts

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

— Edward Dahlberg

Being Lonely aint bad after all Because_YOU_do_You!!! without hurting no soul

— Sabelo Romeo

One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.

— Anonymous

“But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Deep down, Erikson wants profoundly to be respected and admired - and very deep down he wants to be left alone.

— Stanley Hoffmann

There is no man can take, there is no pool can slake, ultimately I am alone; ultimately I am done.

— Hilda Doolittle

“You were a quiet man, yet you took up a vast amount of silent space and that was what I missed.”

— Tatiana de Rosnay

“Because loneliness can kill you. And even if it doesn’t kill you physically—which it certainly can, disease of the psyche often leads…

— J.T. Geissinger

The rigors of creativity - the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude - do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a…

— David Rakoff

I am not a joiner. Somewhere I once said that people join clubs now for the very reason they once carried them,…

— Rod McKuen

As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence…

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

To be lonely is to feel unwanted and unloved, and therefor unloveable. Loneliness is a taste of death. No wonder some people…

— Jean Vanier

The bitter pinecone may be eaten, The mist on high give nourishment. The whole world takes to go-and-getting; My way alone is…

— Du Fu

What is the impulse that drove to direct? To me, it seems so immense. Just having a rock 'n' roll band, or…

— Patti Smith

'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with…

— Lord Byron

“Because of the loneliness and despair that results from being an individual (i.e., a unique human being, rather than one of the…

— Marsha Sinetar

We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness. True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human…

— Wendell Berry

“Loneliness is a condition of energetic imbalance. As with all human conditions it is an illusion, albeit a very debilitating one if…

— Gary Hopkins

“But I have thought of you often during these holidays and imagined how quiet you must be in your lonely fort among…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Lonely's a temporary condition, a cloud that blocks out the sun for a spell and then makes the sunshine seem even brighter…

— Steve Earle

“Karou wished she could be the kind of girl who was complete unto herself, comfortable in solitude, serene. But she wasn't. She…

— Laini Taylor

People don't realize it, but no one lives that rock and roll life 24-7. They think it's hundreds of bottles of champagne…

— Lenny Kravitz

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

— Thomas Merton

“When words don't come easy, I make do with silence and find something in nothing." ~ Strider Marcus Jones, Poet”

— Strider Marcus Jones

“The longer one is alone, the easier to hear the song of the earth.”

— Robert Anton Wilson

There is nothing like the bootless solitude of those who are caged together.

— Iris Murdoch

“Being alone can be good. It is easy to find peace alone. But sometimes...being alone is a kind of death.”

— Dean Koontz

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

— Samuel Johnson

“You should actually be fighting to have a time of solitude because through it, you can make yourself great.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.

— Olga Korbut

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

— Carl Sandburg

“If you can't write, read. If you can't read, walk. Or walk and read, then write.”

— Joyce Rachelle

“Solitude, the joy of being alone, stems from, as well as promotes, a state of maturity and inner richness.”

— Neel Burton

“There is a quiet glory [in] merely making things, and then sharing those things with an open heart and no expectations.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

— Aristotle

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

— Leo Tolstoy

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

— Martha Beck

There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.

— William Wordsworth