Solitude Quotes · Page 74

It seems to be that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.

— Bart Yates

It seems to me that today if the artist wishes to be serious... he must once more sink himself in solitude.

— Edgar Degas

Life beyond the crowd may maintain peace in mind, but creates loneliness which kills spirit softly.

— Nishchal Ningleku

I have lived alone, by myself, for many years, so I feel I am my best company.

— Deepti Naval

“They do live more in earnest, more in themselves, and less in surface change, and frivolous external things.”

— Emily Brontë

Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

— Lillian Hellman

When I'm writing solitude feels very good. But when I'm not writing it feels lonely... Having a big family solves that problem.

— Michael Chabon

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

— Jonathan Franzen

“Solitude my solace, wrapped around me like layers of golden hair. Stacks of books and I can sing as loud as I…

— Jeannine Hall Gailey

Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough!…

— Hermann Hesse

“...without moving a muscle in his face, slips away; retreats, I think, to that sheltered place where his stories are kept. Perhaps…

— Pete Dexter

“one’s neighbors, and think about God—if these are the things one has decided are worth pursuing. But it is difficult to accomplish…

— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

The country is more of a wilderness, more of a wild solitude, in the winter than in the summer. The wild comes…

— John Burroughs

We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer,…

— Honore de Balzac

Yes! in the sea of life enisled, With echoing straits between us thrown, Dotting the shoreless watery wild, We mortal millions live…

— Matthew Arnold

And being alone is the best way to be When I'm by myself it's the best way to be When I'm all…

— Edie Brickell

Most people go to ashrams or retreats to destress and rejuvenate themselves. But I come back to my roots, the place where…

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

My sister Emily loved the moors. Flowers brighter than the rose bloomed in the blackest of the heath for her; out of…

— Charlotte Bronte

“We are familiar with people who seek out solitude: penitents, failures, saints, or prophets. They retreat to deserts, preferably, where they live…

— Patrick Suskind

The soul contains few secrets and longings which cannot be sensibly discussed, analyzed, and polled. Solitude, the very condition which sustained the…

— Herbert Marcuse

But give thanks, at least, that you still have Frost's poems; and when you feel the need of solitude, retreat to the…

— Robert Graves

“I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake up in the middle of the night and…

— M. Ageyev

That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or…

— Stephen King

For many years, I have been moved by the blue at the far edge of what can be seen, that color of…

— Rebecca Solnit

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

— Susan Sontag

What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?

— Henrik Ibsen

“Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.”

— Harold Bloom

You cannot build up a character in a solitude; you need a formed character to stand a solitude.

— Austin O'Malley

For me, because my life is so public, I just like to be alone sometimes in my private house and enjoy my…

— Madelaine Petsch

Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.

— Philip Sidney

“The power of imagination is strongest in the place of solitude.”

— Sunday Adelaja

What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?

— Henry David Thoreau

“Have you ever considered another type of loneliness; a good and healthy, happy loneliness?”

— Bryant McGill

What Independence Has Come to Mean to Me: The Pain of Solitude. The Pleasure of Self-Knowledge

— Vivian Gornick

“For months we have been making triumphant retreats before a demoralized enemy who is advancing in utter disorder.”

— Eric Frank Russell

Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together.

— Neil Gaiman

“i will forever be colliding with a billion unnamed undiscovered stars, each of us on our own orbital paths.”

— Sanober Khan

I am only serious about 20% of the time; one of the great joys of my life is the fact that I…

— Mark Richards

“True solitude is the home of the person, false solitude the refuge of the individualist.”

— Thomas Merton

When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.

— Jose Mujica