Solitude Quotes · Page 58

I always like to keep myself on the outside of drama, looking in from a distance.

— Stephanie Klimek

“the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”

— Bruce Bryans

“One can be alone without being lonely. And lonely without being alone. (Rosemary)”

— Lisa Kleypas

I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.

— Henri Nouwen

“Therefore, dear Sir, love your solitude and try to sing out with the pain it causes you.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Loneliness is one thing, solitude another: you have learned that - now!”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In triumphs, I found my weakness. In low moments, I found my real strength. In silence, I found my True Self.

— Ces Peta

Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.

— Henri Nouwen

When you're first minister, I always say you're never alone, yet it is the loneliest job in the world because no one…

— Humza Yousaf

True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one…

— Wendell Berry

“One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a…

— Anne Brontë

I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do.…

— Maggie Nelson

“Loneliness is a passive state. It is a compulsion when you are left on your own by others. Solitude, on the other…

— Alok Mishra

Loneliness doesnôt come from having no one around you, but from being unable to comunicate the things that are important to you.

— Anonymous

Sometimes, I just need my alone time. This world is so crazy and unpredictable. I just need some time to think, relax,…

— Anonymous

“...I got to love solitude - to see the Moon rise and set - I had time to watch it trace the…

— John Geddes

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like…

— Anonymous

“His cigarettes helped mark the passage of time, especially on days that seemed all sun and sky...The dependable dwindling of his cigarette…

— Claire Vaye Watkins

I don't think playing it safe constitutes a retreat, necessarily. In other words, I don't think if, by playing safe he means…

— Rod Serling

“There is perhaps a kinship among qualities; one draws another along with it; and the biographer should here call attention to the…

— Virginia Woolf

Sometimes, You Need To Be Alone. Sometimes Not Even Your Best Friend Need To Know. Sometimes You Just Need To Put Up…

— Pacifiersucker

A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude…

— Maurice Blanchot

In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude.…

— Mohsin Hamid

Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even…

— Dean Koontz

Not to be alone. To be spared the possibility of knowing oneself, in aloneness.

— Joyce Carol Oates

You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and only.

— Anne Frank

“you know the way of the wind in the night—the desolate alleys my soul takes”

— john j geddes

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

— Lord Byron

Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.”

— William Deresiewicz

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

— Aldous Huxley

I love nothing more than going to eat by myself with a newspaper.

— James Nesbitt

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.

— Criss Jami

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

— Salman Rushdie

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

— Allen Ginsberg

Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.

— Jean Rhys

“The fallow soil of loneliness is fertile ground for self-deception.”

— Dean Koontz

“I had come to appreciate the reality of solitude and the illusion of community that bars provide.”

— Martha Cooley

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

— Lorraine Hansberry

It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.

— Seneca the Younger