Solitude Quotes · Page 67

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

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

— Sunday Adelaja

“Loneliness is not intolerable when enthusiasm for a quest fills the mind.”

— David Grann

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

— Theophile Gautier

“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

That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great…

— George Eliot

I'm surrounded by people all day long so I like to stay by myself at the weekend. I need to be alone…

— Josephine Jobert

Life lessons: Communication and conversation are two different things, you have to know how to be alone without being lonely, shit happens.

— Anonymous

The best would be to have friends who came and went away; but if I had to choose between their never coming…

— Rumer Godden

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All…

— Thomas de Quincey

“Yes, the sound of water, the voice of the wind - completely foreign to human passions. All the other sounds of this…

— Joseph Conrad

“We live in an old chaos of the sun, Or old dependency of day and night, Or island solitude, unsponsored, free, Of…

— Wallace Stevens

“In the wide pile, by others heeded not, Hers was one sacred solitary spot, Whose gloomy aisles and bending shelves contain For…

— Walter Scott

“Have (with the help of convention) found the solution of everything in ease and the easiest side of ease; but it is…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Contrary to the current presumption, if there is any man who has no right to solitude, it is the artist. Art cannot…

— Albert Camus

We in the "developed" world seem to have many auditory strategies that insulate us from the presence of silence, simplicity, and solitude.…

— Joan Halifax

Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self. And…

— Sherry Turkle

It's the loneliest feeling in the world - to find yourself standing up when everyone else is sitting down. To have everybody…

— Robert E. Lee

“Loneliness is like a set of binoculars that’s trained on the social world. This has actually been proven. Psychologists have long theorized…

— Emily White

Prayer is a gift from Almighty God that transforms us, whether we bow our heads in solitude, or offer swift and silent…

— George W. Bush

“I do not want to wander about any more. I am pining for a corner in which to nestle down snugly, away…

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

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

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“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

“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

Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain.

— Robert Frost

Being alone does not mean you are lonely, and being lonely does not mean you are alone.

— Anonymous

“I didn’t mind being alone. Solitude and peace with oneself are probably the only preparation one has for death.”

— James Lee Burke

“Loneliness is just like everything else-if you endure it long enough, you get used to it.”

— Paula Stokes

“my favourite emotions include 'brief calmness in good weather' and 'i am the only person alive”

— Tao Lin

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them.

— H. Rider Haggard