Solitude Quotes · Page 55

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.

— Theophile Gautier

“If you want to give birth to any discoveries or inventions, you must start practicing solitude.”

— Sunday Adelaja

In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very…

— Lily Tomlin

People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain.

— Anonymous

There is not true intimacy between souls who do not know how to respect one another's solitude.

— Thomas Merton

“We've known about the transcendant power of solitude for centuries; it's only recently that we've forgotten it.”

— Susan Cain

There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important.

— Marya Mannes

What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“The paradigm experience of solitude is a state characterized by disengagement from the immediate demands of other people – a state of…

— Bella DePaulo

Everyone is lonely sometimes, even married people. But most single women (as well as women with spouses) actually enjoy their solitude.

— Sarah Mahoney

“At the end of the day, we are with ourselves — and this can either be the most beautiful thing or the…

— Laura Chouette

“I am vehemently grateful that, by whatever means, I learned to assume that loneliness should be in part pleasure, sensitizing and clarifying,…

— Marilynne Robinson

Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments…

— Anais Nin

“Long have I dwelt forgotten here In pining woe and dull despair; This place of solitude and gloom Must be my dungeon…

— Anne Brontë

A period recourse into the wilds is not a retreat into secret silent sanctums to escape a wicked world, it is to…

— Benton MacKaye

If you want to do creative work, there are tremendous sacrifices involved, and tremendous financial sacrifices too. It requires dedication and solitude.

— Joyce Johnson

“All I can say is that I’m grateful that in many ways they just let me be. They didn’t want my rough…

— Tommy Caldwell

“So they gave me love in form of poison and tiny little pills, programming my emotions, teaching me how to feel. To…

— Charlotte Eriksson

Some people prefer solitude. They say their peace of mind depends on this. Others say they would be better off in church.…

— Meister Eckhart

But in the morning Lust is always furtive. It dresses as mechanically as it undressed and heads straight for the door, to…

— Henry Fairlie

“At the foundation of the Christian life, there is a kind of sacred individuality, a sort of holy aloneness that cries out…

— Michael Spencer

Sometimes during solitude I hear truth spoken with clarity and freshness; uncolored and untranslated it speaks from within myself in a language…

— Hugh B. Brown

O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other. After all, if we look closer into ourselves, shall we not admit that…

— Ama Ata Aidoo

Forgotten tones of love recur to us, and kind glances shine out of the past--oh so bright and clear!--oh so longed after!--because…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“What you don't do is surrender. You might retreat occasionally, but you don't give up.”

— Chris Brogan

“For her a day of pampering meant comic books, black liquorice, serious exercise, veggie curry and, above all, solitude.”

— Salla Simukka

I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that's becoming a very precious and rare commodity.

— Robyn Davidson

“That’s not the same as having support. It’s possible to be surrounded by people and still feel alone.”

— Suzanne Wright

I have many reasons to be loney but I am holding a one good reason to be happy and that is are…

— Enzo

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

— Tennessee Williams

“I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Solitude is the most fertile land that yields the bumper crop of minds creativity.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“Restricted happiness is better than the freedom of solitude." -Yuichi to Wataru”

— Satoru Kannagi

One can't live in solitude. To survive as a single family unit is not possible.

— Nushrat Bharucha

Fly-fishing is a magic way to recapture the rapture of solitude without the pangs of loneliness.

— John D. Voelker

“With so much trauma and drama in everyday life, the beauty of peace and solitude beckons like an oasis in a barren…

— Jo Ann V. Glim

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

— Albert Camus

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

— David Foster Wallace

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

— Karl Kraus