Solitude Quotes · Page 80

“Quiet reflection is often the mother of deep understanding. Maintain that peaceful nursery, enabling stillness to speak.”

— Tom Althouse

I think having my life be as private and quiet as possible is a way in which then I can go and…

— Nicole Kidman

Quiet people keep thier secrets to themselves. That's what makes them interesting...and usually worth the wait.

— Kirsten Miller

Solitude offers a lot that being coupled or being in a group does not. It helps us learn what we are capable…

— Alix Kates Shulman

“In solitude the solitary man consumes himself, in the crowd the crowd consumes him.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The best way to convert your time into products is through the power of isolation.”

— Sunday Adelaja

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

— May Sarton

“Learning to read – really read, that is, to spend hours alone lost in a book – requires example and solitude, and…

— Andrew Cook

'Tis they who are in their own chambers haunted By thoughts that like unbidden guests intrude, And sit down, uninvited and unwanted,…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Dartmoor is my secret getaway. I love the freedom, the expanse and the solitude of the moor. I love walking or riding…

— Angela Rippon

“For the rest, silence or good music, not much food, a lot of solitude, walks on the Heath, the time to think…

— Will Self

“I feel I can give you everything without giving myself away, I whispered in your basement bed. If one does one's solitude…

— Maggie Nelson

There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express…

— John O'Donohue

“Day by day, the constant solitude drove him deeper inside himself, with only his thoughts for companions. Soon he might lose the…

— Sondra Allan Carr

“My love for imaginary objects and my facility in lending myself to them ended by disillusioning me with everything around me, and…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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

— Philip Larkin

The death of my mother permanently affects my happiness, more even than I should have anticipated, though I always knew that I…

— Sara Coleridge

“Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to…

— Criss Jami

The solitude lends much appeal, because a sea without a harbour surrounds it. Even a modest boat can find few anchorage, and…

— Tacitus

One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

And to think, there are still places in the world where man has not been, where he has left no footprints, where…

— Evan Tanner

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

— thaddeus stevens

Feeling alone is what most likely sparked this way of thinking. Realizing that everyone (consciously or subconsciously) feels alone too - but…

— Adam Rodriguez

I exist in the depths of solitude pondering my true goal Trying 2 find peace of mind and still preserve my soul

— Tupac Shakur

“A box sits empty, wanting to hold and protect. Hollow tears it cries.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.

— Henry David Thoreau

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

— Louis Aragon

I have spent years toiling away in the relative solitude of my chambers, with just my law clerks, in isolation.

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Solitude allows you to sit down and work out a system that works best for you.”

— Sunday Adelaja

Be guided by feeling alone. We are only simple mortals, subject to error.

— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot

The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.

— Andy Rooney

It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone.

— Jessamyn West

How foolish it is to wear oneself out in vain longing for warmth! Solitude is independence.

— Hermann Hesse

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

— Jan Struther

“Sometimes you just have to turn off the lights, sit in the dark, and see what happens inside of you.”

— Adam Oakley

Solidarity is being okay with yourself. In the dark you can see light without anyone else.

— Jeremy Limn

In solitude, we find ourselves; we prepare ourselves to come to conversation with something to say that is authentic, ours.

— Sherry Turkle

Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door,…

— Jules Renard