Solitude Quotes · Page 55

“The whole problem of life is this: how to break out of one's own solitude, how to communicate with others.”

— Cesare Pavese

Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.

— Gautama Buddha

There are moments when, without Internet, even the non-solitaries would die from loneliness.

— Jean-Paul Malfatti

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I like to be alone. I am focused on what I am doing. I feel the nature and I feel my body.…

— Ueli Steck

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

— Sunday Adelaja

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

— Philip Sidney

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

— Henry David Thoreau

“You can tell who your friends are because they don’t prevent you from being on your own, because they illuminate your solitude…

— Christian Bobin

“One who will not accept solitude, stillness and quiet recurring moments...is caught up in the wilderness of addictions; far removed from an…

— T.F. Hodge

I write the word solitude on my wall and then below it: Do you know me at all? Are my words just…

— Jessica Sorensen

“I could tell you of occasionally, every eon, meeting a person, with whom I might stay for a billion years. But what…

— Steven L. Peck

You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I…

— Sandra Cisneros

Spiritual superiority [consists in] deep dedication ... in the form of the most rigorous training, as commitment, resistance, solitude, and love.

— Martin Heidegger

Loneliness is devastating our mental and physical health and, at its worst, is killing us. Yet thankfully, unlike some conditions, we can…

— Owen Jones

I think art is much more about an engagement with the world, a way of being called upon and recognizing that the…

— Rachel Kushner

“Contemplation means rest, suspension of activity, withdrawal into the mysterious interior solitude in which the soul is absorbed in the immense and…

— Thomas Merton

I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its…

— Gaston Bachelard

“A community is not a place where 'desert fathers' are testing themselves - more and more, harder and harder, each on his…

— Dorothy Day

People are lonely in this world for lots of different reasons. Some people have something in their disposition. Maybe they were born…

— Dakota Fanning

“I usually describe my father as a man given to impenetrable solitude. If I turn the phrase I can apply it to…

— Elizabeth Hay

It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at…

— Anonymous

What's agitating about solitude is the inner voice telling you that you should be mated to somebody, that solitude is a mistake.…

— Charles Baxter

For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time,…

— Virginia Woolf

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

— Vivian Gornick

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

— Bryant McGill

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

— Mark Richards

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

— Sanober Khan

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

— Jose Mujica

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

— Thomas Merton

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

— Fanny Burney

“Wandering alone in the barrenness of foolishness, I hear the drip-drip of Wisdom and smile.”

— Martin Cosgrove

But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Among the many things it meant was that even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long…

— Theodore Sturgeon

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

— Zane Grey

I Am Very Lucky To Live Alone . Because I have Nobody To Loose….A Journey With My Girl

— Luckybannu

I can receive nothing more from these tragic solitudes than a little empty purity.

— Anonymous

“Perhaps love is to give one’s own solitude to others? For it is the very last thing we have to offer. from…

— Clarice Lispector