Solitude Quotes · Page 66

Only the bad man is alone.

— Denis Diderot

Only when one is connected to one's inner core is one connected to others. And, for me, the core, the inner spring,…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

— Saheba

'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Flee, my friend, into thy solitude—and thither, where a rough strong breeze bloweth. It is not thy lot to be a fly-flap.—…

— Anonymous

A Warrior of Light needs love. Love and affection are part of his nature. He makes use of solitude, but is not…

— Paulo Coelho

True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.

— Edward Hoagland

“Islands are emblematic not only of solitude but of refuge and sanctuary, the way a small boat is an island in rough…

— Gretel Ehrlich

Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.

— Naomi Judd

“Nina could scarcely believe a house could be as quiet as the one on Washington Street. Although there were moments when she…

— Jean Elson

Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.

— Barbara De Angelis

That theatrical kind of virtue, which requires publicity for its stage, and an applauding world for its audience, could not be depended…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I love to consider an Infidel, whether distinguished by the title of deist, atheist, or free-thinker, by three different lights, in his…

— Richard Steele

I love writing, and I love the solitude of the writing, in that you're just sitting there creating something from nothing, or…

— John Wells

“Idleness and solitude led to these dramatics: an ordinary turd indulging himself as the chief of sinners.”

— Charles Portis

I took a great deal of pleasure in it, and I still feel nostalgic about it. However, I felt that it had…

— Jean Dubuffet

“It sounds ironic to say that the cure for loneliness is aloneness. I don’t mean that you should just make yourself more…

— Robert A. Johnson

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

— Abu Bakr

Running is many things to me: survival, calmness, euphoria, solitude. It is proof of my corporeal existence, my ability to control my…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“We can combat existential anguish – the unbearable lightness of our being – in a variety of ways. We can choose to…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Solitude always gives birth to a product.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

— Harold Bloom

Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.

— Eleanor Catton

When you feel as if your heart is too tired to love again, be alone for while. Perhaps that's what you need,…

— Anonymous

I think an erotics of place may be one of the reasons why environmentalists are seen as subversive. There is a backlash…

— Terry Tempest Williams

“He imagined himself lying there, unable to sleep, thinking of his mother, separated from her by the unresponsive blankets tucked too tightly…

— Marcel Proust

I hold the most archaic values on earth ... the fertility of the soul, the magic of the animals, the power-vision in…

— Gary Snyder

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I am not sure what lonliness is," she said. "If it is not literally being solitary, is it the fear of solitude,…

— Mary Balogh

Here is the infallible test. Imagine yourself in a situation where you are alone, wholly alone on earth, and you are offered…

— Martin Buber

The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude.

— Robert Breault

“And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a…

— Kahlil Gibran

I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he…

— Bell Hooks

“After all, she is lucky. I have been much too calm these past three years. I can receive nothing more from these…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“Taking solitude in stride was a sign of strength and of a willingness to take care of myself. This meant - among…

— Jenni Ferrari-Adler

I've always loved the woods, and I've always loved gardening and a lot of solitude and quiet.

— Lizz Wright

I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.

— William Shakespeare

Solitude, as I understand it, does not signify an unhappy state, but rather secret royalty, profound incommunicability yet a more or less…

— Jean Genet

I didn't think I was in a morbid mood, but it appears I am. My mind goes round and round trying to…

— Jonathan Ames