Solitude Quotes · Page 79

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

— Arianna Lyzette

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

— Wayne Cordeiro

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

— Anonymous

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

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I spend most of my time alone, because I so value and thrive in the quiet. Heaven.

— Anne Lamott

The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from…

— May Sarton

“I should be able to return to solitude each time as to the place I have never described to anybody, as the…

— Thomas Merton

You may not enjoy loneliness, because loneliness is sad. But solitude is something else; solitude is what you look forward to when…

— Ruskin Bond

Sometimes loneliness isn't such a bad end after all, sometimes it brings out the hidden potential in us and make us realize…

— Blaze Olermiday

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am…

— Elie Wiesel

“Being mindful, one moves from being a thinker, living in a muddied lake, to being an observer, living in a crystal-clear lake.”

— Jayita Bhattacharjee

Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems…

— Emily Carr

“Observation had always meant more to me than interaction...My sole gift or talent, I believe now, was that places could impress themselves…

— Jeff VanderMeer

The point of marriage is not to create a quick commonality by tearing down all boundaries on the contrary, a good marriage…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“For there is no retreat that is quieter or freer from trouble than a man’s own soul, especially when he has within…

— Marcus Aurelius

“There is one in this tribe too often miserable - a child bereaved of both parents. None cares for this child: she…

— Charlotte Brontë

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with…

— Anonymous

“Guilt and misery shrink, by a natural instinct, from public notice: they court privacy and solitude: and even in their choice of…

— Thomas De Quincey

¨Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to…

— Janet Fitch

It is the divine attribute of the imagination, that it is irrepressible, unconfinable; that when the real world is shut out, it…

— Washington Irving

“I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is…

— Robert Burton

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

When I'm not working, I like to do things alone, just to take a breath.

— Emily Wickersham

When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem.

— Michael Chabon

Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

— Lillian Hellman

“They do live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface change, and frivolous external things.”

— Emily Brontë

What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?

— Henrik Ibsen

“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”

— Harold Bloom

You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.

— Austin O'Malley

For me, because my life is so public, I just like to be alone sometimes in my private house and enjoy my…

— Madelaine Petsch

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

— Jonathan Franzen

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

— Susan Sontag

Humility provides everyone, even him who despairs in solitude, with the strongest relationship to his fellow man.

— Franz Kafka

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

— Albert Einstein