Solitude Quotes · Page 47

“You can't ever really have enough worth that when you're gone, the spot you left won't close over.”

— Laura Florand

“...and since, human speech is like a cracked tin kettle, on which we hammer out tunes to make bears dance when we…

— Flaubert Gustave

“The importance of solitude is to help you to differentiate your own thoughts from those you have studied, read, heard, or unintentionally…

— Tonya Sheridan

No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'

— C. S. Lewis

Courage looks you straight in the eye. She is not impressed with power trippers, and she knows first aid. Courage is not…

— J. Ruth Gendler

“Solitude is a wonderful treasure the world is still yet to discover.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

— John Stuart Blackie

It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.

— H. P. Lovecraft

“For a long time that had seemed to her to be the key to life: Life--real life--was just a solitude waiting to…

— Kevin Brockmeier

They make solitude, which they call peace.

— Tacitus

“The way one is envisaged by other people - what easier way is there of envisaging oneself? There is a fatalism in…

— Elizabeth Bowen

She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

— Sarah Hall

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

— Stanley Hoffmann

“Real intimacy is a product of solitude.”

— Sunday Adelaja

When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.

— Antonio Porchia

“Oh, be quiet, Fo-Fo.”

— Suzanne Collins

Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.

— Martin Heidegger

All alone by the telephone.

— Irving Berlin

“Sometimes an abundance of sympathy can be more overwhelming than solitude”

— Jeffrey Archer

“They, whether steel kings or Bonapartes, cannot, after a certain age, endure solitude. For it is the solitude, even though strictly relative…

— William Bolitho

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false…

— Chris Ware

Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary…

— May Sarton

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

— Colleen Hoover

In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living.…

— Anais Nin