Solitude Quotes · Page 51

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

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

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

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

— Ketanji Brown Jackson

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

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world, a world different from those inhabited and experienced by all…

— Philip K. Dick

“You’re a loner in body, mind, and soul. A writer who spends a day of solitude in the office is plagued by…

— Bruce Obee

The larger the ego, the less the need for other egos around. The more modest, humble, and self-effacing we feel, the more…

— Barbara Holland

“For oft, when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is…

— Philip Smith

“I felt that my whole life was bound to go on in the same solitude and helpless dreariness, from which I myself…

— Leo Tolstoy

God is not solitude, but perfect communion. For this reason the human person, the image of God, realizes himself or herself in…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude…

— John Ortberg

“Writing is no more than wending a way in an attempt to restore all of the paths that had been cut-short, headed…

— Mary Cappello

“An Egyptian monk, after fifteen years of complete solitude, received a packet of letters from his family and friends. He did not…

— Emil M. Cioran

“You can be a rich person alone. You can be a smart person alone. But you cannot be a complete person alone.…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“Alone. She realized how much she had missed the luxury of solitude, and knew that its occasional comfort would always be essential…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny…

— George Eliot

The hardest lesson is Clare’s solitude. Sometimes I come home and Clare seems kind of irritated; I’ve interrupted some train of thought,…

— Audrey Niffenegger

“For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge, I live alone, I look to die alone: Yet sometimes, when a wind…

— Christina Rossetti

“I wasn't afraid of being alone, but I was afraid of what people would think about my solitary state. People, even well-intentioned…

— Alice Pung

“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

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

— Jessamyn West

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

— Andy Rooney

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

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

— Jeremy Limn

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

— Adam Oakley

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

“We must pass through acute loneliness to learn that we are not alone.”

— Sandra Lee Dennis

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

— Paulo Coelho

Toil to some is happiness, and rest to others. This man can only breathe in crowds, and that man only in solitudes.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

— Anthony Burgess

Loneliness has nothing to do with how many people you have around you, but how many of them understand you.

— Anonymous

Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price.

— Paulo Coelho