Solitude Quotes · Page 73

Sometimes the only kind of innovation comes when you have some solitude; when you step away.

— Anand Mahindra

“It was either the chaos of a crowd of thoughts or the silence of solitude... nothing in between..”

— Sanhita Baruah

It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.

— Edgar Degas

It seems to be that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.

— Bart Yates

I have lived alone, by myself, for many years, so I feel I am my best company.

— Deepti Naval

Life beyond the crowd may maintain peace in mind, but creates loneliness which kills spirit softly.

— Nishchal Ningleku

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. Albert Einstein

— Albert Einstein

I'm very independent, I like to be alone a lot, I like to go shopping by myself - that's my quiet time.

— Carmen Electra

Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns…

— Anonymous

“Where solitude endeth, there beginneth the market-place; and where the market-place beginneth, there beginneth also the noise of the great actors, and…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“It was never a gift; it was refuge. It was his hole. A coffin he crawled into. And now it’s like the…

— Daniel Abbott

I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my…

— Eugene Delacroix

“You should carry the monastery in yourself. The desert is within you. The desert calls you and draws you back. . .…

— Dennis Patrick Slattery

The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern…

— Erich Fromm

“People talked about loneliness as if it were something alive and it could get you. But loneliness is something dead, it's deadness.…

— Sofia Samatar

“ The Infinite It was always dear to me, this solitary hill, and this hedgerow here, that closes out my view, from…

— Giacomo Leopardi

There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not…

— May Sarton

My dear friend, Bonnie, is a person who rests and, consequently, earned my ire early in our relationship. Her ability to rest…

— Sue Thoele

There have always been hermits: people who want to get away from other humans. Literally, some of the first extant books and…

— Michael Finkel

“You can’t be friends with everyone. To be true to another is to be an enemy of the group. To have space…

— Anonymous

“If you do not follow somebody you feel very lonely. Be lonely then. Why are you frightened of being alone? Because you…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“how can you imagine what particular region of the first ages a man's untrammelled feet may take him into by the way…

— Joseph Conrad

“ Loneliness A recent study showed that 13.5 percent of college students are severely lonely. Overall, they felt that they were to…

— Heather Moehn

“I didn't feel lonely until there was something to yearn for. Loneliness and longing are two sides of the same coin.”

— Jostein Gaarder

Sometimes I hop onto Google Plus just to have a bit of quiet time by myself.

— Anonymous

Why sleep when I can witness the silence and the stillness that I am so in love with?

— Arianna Lyzette

People who can't be alone have a problem. Loneliness is a luxury for people like me.

— Karl Lagerfeld

I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am…

— May Sarton

Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

— Russell Banks

“To live with ghosts requires solitude. —ANNE MICHAELS, Fugitive Pieces”

— Christopher McDougall

I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.”

— Wayne Cordeiro

There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most…

— Anonymous

My alone feels so good, I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude.

— Warsan Shire

Solitude becomes a sort of tangible enemy, the more dangerous, because it dwells within the citadel itself.

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.

— Anonymous

The eternal questof the individual human being is ti shatter his loneliness.

— Nix

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

— Dallas Willard