Solitude Quotes · Page 78

“What a writer needs? A friend. A friend that’ll accompany beside solitude itself.”

— Desi Puspitasari

Solitude matters, and for some people, it's the air they breathe

— Susan Cain

“Composing a letter is a way to combine solitude with good company.”

— Lord Byron

“Silence is fine if I am on my own but it's not overly sociable if my husband is around!”

— Joanna Runciman

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

— Roland Barthes

Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space.

— White Oleander

But there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.

— Megan Whalen Turner

“I’ve discovered that one of the benefits of living alone is you can have as much chintz as you like.”

— Renee Shafransky

“Quite alone. No voice, no touch, no hand…How long must I lie here? For ever? No, only for a couple of hundred…

— Jean Rhys

One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Suddenly I'm as if cast out, and this solitude surrounds me as something vast and unbounded, when my feeling, standing on the…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Loneliness is the alchemy that turns an adolescent into an adult. Adolescents are profoundly lonely, but believe that their pangs will be…

— Joan Gould

I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without…

— Charles Bukowski

How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of…

— Herman Melville

“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

“After six years of solitude, sharing a meal and conversation with someone was a pleasure. More than a pleasure, her hospitality and…

— Dean Koontz

A perfect life is like that of a ship of war which has its own place in the fleet and can share…

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

“So through endless twilights I dreamed and waited, though I knew not what I waited for. Then in the shadowy solitude my…

— H.P. Lovecraft

you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom…

— Cornelia Funke

Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being…

— Adrienne Rich

“Of course, I'm not quite ready to forsake all the products of society, just yet. I have my clothes, my books, etc...…

— Mark X

When you are alone, you have all the time in the world to practice whistling like a bird. When there is no…

— Jean M. Auel

Finding yourself in a hole, at the bottom of a hole, in almost total solitude, and discovering that only writing can save…

— Marguerite Duras

Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a 'builder-upper.

— Robert Benchley

How one hates to think of oneself as alone. How one avoids it. It seems to imply rejection or unpopularity.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“There is a quiet glory [in] merely making things, and then sharing those things with an open heart and no expectations.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

— Aristotle

“If you can't write, read. If you can't read, walk. Or walk and read, then write.”

— Joyce Rachelle

“Solitude, the joy of being alone, stems from, as well as promotes, a state of maturity and inner richness.”

— Neel Burton

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

— Henri Nouwen

Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners.

— Dean Cavanagh

“It is a great thing to be able to make God your source and the time of solitude presents you with that…

— Sunday Adelaja

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

— Leo Tolstoy

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

— Martha Beck

There is One great society alone on earth: The noble living and the noble dead.

— William Wordsworth

Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.

— Twyla Tharp

Solitude is an ocean with wonderful places hidden in its depths.

— Isaac of Nineveh

The seeds of knowledge may be planted in solitude, but must be cultivated in public.

— Samuel Johnson