Solitude Quotes · Page 63

Its not about being afriad to be hurt, Its about being afraid to be alone.

— Anonymous

Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.

— Jim Butcher

Love is nothing but the fear of mortal man at the thought of solitude.

— Theodor Storm

In solitude, you accumulate energy to spend in crowds; and in crowds, you accumulate energy to spend in solitude!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart - a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness.

— Pablo Neruda

Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.

— Lillian Hellman

People: You're so quiet, like you don't talk... Me: I talk, just not to you.

— Xoe

“The Flash: I often come here to run and to think. But, today, I don’t want to think—I just want to run.”

— Tom Taylor

“Moved by an unconsious sentiment born out of solitude and savagery - idle tales of a noughty child who sometimes reflects and…

— Paul Gauguin

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius, the stern friend, the cold, obscure shelter where moult the wings which will bear…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude that gives everything back its value. At a certain level of wealth, the…

— Albert Camus

I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of…

— Adrienne Monnier

Some people can't stand being alone. I love solitude and silence. But when I come out of it, I'm a regular talking…

— Celine Dion

It would be nice to avoid the world, to leave it and all its threats and unhappiness. Not to die or anything…

— Robert Cormier

“When loneliness hits hard, pour yourself a cup of coffee and sit quietly. In time, the stillness becomes a friend, and your…

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

Sometimes Its better to keep silent than to tell others what you feel, Because it hurts badly when you come to know…

— Anonymous

“I repose in this quiet and secluded spot, not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to…

— thaddeus stevens

Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“As a fringe benefit, practicing silent solitude enables us to sleep less and to feel more energetic. The energy expended in the…

— Brennan Manning

I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception…

— Joseph Conrad

solitude begins with a time and a place for God, and God alone. If we really believe not only that God exists…

— Anonymous

Solitary. But not in the sense of being alone. Not solitary in the way Thoreau was, for example, exiling himself in order…

— Paul Auster

“A society coming apart at top and bottom, or passing over into another form, contains just as many possibilities for revelation as…

— William Barrett

“When I was a child, I thought, Casually, that solitude Never needed to be sought. Something everybody had, Like nakedness, it lay…

— Philip Larkin

“He felt if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die.”

— D. H. Lawrence

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

— Albert Einstein

If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.

— Lord Byron

Prayer is an end to isolation. It is living our daily life with someone; with him who alone can deliver us from…

— Georges Lefebvre

In a retreat the lame are formost. [In a retreat the lame are foremost.]

— George Herbert

“He knows solitude. He knows its pleasure and its power. He knows it is a home you can occupy.”

— Deborah Willis

Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die

— William Cowper

No one to talk with, all by myself. No one to walk with, but I'm happy on the shelf.

— Fats Waller

maybe the lonely places are the only things that make human beings of us all.

— Babs Deal

Solitude is a way to defend the spirit against the murderous din of our materialism.

— Thomas Merton

It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing and stretching one's arms again.

— Mark Rothko

There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are…

— James Anthony Froude

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.

— Riccardo Muti

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

— Octave Mirbeau

Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.

— Jorge Luis Borges

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

— Anonymous