Solitude Quotes · Page 47

To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone.

— Irvin D. Yalom

There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows.

— Henry David Thoreau

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

— Henry David Thoreau

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

— Norman Cousins

Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own.

— Anonymous

The worst feeling: Being in a room full of PEOPLE & still being lonely.

— Kiana J Wilson

Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.

— Bruce Lee

“Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.”

— Italo Calvino

There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem The…

— Bob Dylan

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am…

— Wislawa Szymborska

“...but now, driving past the billboard I realized that losing everything is death. A death that I crave and I don't want…

— Kate Bolick

The misfortune is that although everyone must come to [death], each experiences the adventure in solitude. We never left Maman during those…

— Simone de Beauvoir

The state of being alone is truly invigorating. One should get accustomed with that in a slow and steady manner. However, it's…

— Anonymous

In the ice of solitude man becomes most inexorably a question to himself, and just because the question pitilessly summons and draws…

— Martin Buber

After chatting happily to people all morning in my professional life, I prefer to spend quiet nights in, punctuated only by the…

— Susanna Reid

I was trundling around with my inadequacies, and inner pain and loneliness. I yearned, desperately, to be something. I yearned to get…

— Anthony Hopkins

To realize that one is really alone, gives new courage to the person. Discovery of truth is a journey, a voyage on…

— Vimala Thakar

“Being alone is not the most awful thing in the world. You visit your museums and cultivate your interests and remind yourself…

— Zoë Heller

We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and…

— Ansel Adams

Zach walked away, but I stood there for a long time, wondering if I should go to my mother; if I should…

— Ally Carter

The world of men has forgotten the joys of silence, the peace of solitude, which is necessary, to some extent, for the…

— Thomas Merton

“So you have chosen aloneness. You have chosen the security and the relative freedom of solitude, because there is no risk involved.…

— Chelsea Fagan

“There are no more deserts. There are no more islands. Yet there is a need for them. In order to understand the…

— Albert Camus

My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful…

— Sue Monk Kidd

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

— Sarah Hall

Solitude gives you the ideas and the motivation to make you want to collaborate.

— Nitin Sawhney

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

— Dag Hammarskjold

“Effective practice of solitude always give birth to freshness, renewal, refocus, rejuvenation, revelation and restoration.”

— Benjamin Suulola

An infected writer. Sick of the poetry poison injected inside of her.

— Needa Muy

In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.

— George Herbert

“Those who love seek a philosophy and, because of this, are fond of solitude.”

— Eiji Yoshikawa

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

— Henry David Thoreau

Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Loneliness is more likely to lead to fussy housekeeping than to grand views of the Universe.

— Mason Cooley

“Her thoughts, loosen by solitude, often burst these days through her unconscious lips; and often contradict one another (...)”

— Salman Rushdie

If you have a trust in and an expectation of your own solitude, everything that you need to know will be revealed…

— John O'Donohue

Everyone on this island wants something kept quiet. I want to roar

— Rachel Cohn

When you hear a solo piano, there's a solitude about just one instrument playing. It can be beautiful; it can be sad.

— Jean-Marc Vallee

“what is the difference between being an independent person and being a person who is accepting of loneliness”

— Mira Gonzalez

“Now I have to lie on the bed for a few minutes and let the solitude gather round me once more.”

— Martin Amis