Solitude Quotes · Page 59

“Nook people are those of us who need solitude, but also the sound of someone puttering in the next room.”

— Durga Chew-Bose

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

— Edward Abbey

I've always loved the woods, and I've always loved gardening and a lot of solitude and quiet.

— Lizz Wright

To be open to creativity, one needs the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.

— Rollo May

I want you to myself don't need nobody else cause, bein' alone with you feels so good, so good.

— Day 26

Quiet is the absence of sound. Silence is the presence of silence.

— Robert Fripp

“Could live with you in solitude and need no one else. Give me your love.”

— Curtis Mayfield

Strength comes from solitude, a waiting, a communion with the best in us, which is at one with the divine spark.

— Elbert Hubbard

Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin…

— Emile M. Cioran

“She was secure in the miniature world she had built; the two other men seemed distant planets, each in his own sphere…

— Michael Ondaatje

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in…

— Henry David Thoreau

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others…

— Bell Hooks

Everybody at least once needs somewhere they can be alone, a space where they could hold tight to the serenity and privacy…

— Anonymous

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“It was under English trees that I meditated on that lost labyrinth: I pictured it perfect and inviolate on the secret summit…

— Jorge Luis Borges

In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more…

— Haruki Murakami

“Life is an island in an ocean of solitude and seclusion. Life is an island, rocks are its desires, trees its dreams,…

— Kahlil Gibran

“but he misses it, the running. Trapped in this house, he misses it more than ever. Misses the rhythm of it, the…

— Patrick Ness

My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the…

— Oscar Wilde

We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...]…

— Aldous Huxley

Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close,…

— Paul Auster

As the truest society approaches always nearer to solitude, so the most excellent speech finally falls into Silence. Silence is audible to…

— Henry David Thoreau

Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

— Anonymous

When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.

— Antonio Porchia

Being alone doesnt make you lonely its the people that are around you,.. that make you feel that way.

— Brokengirl143

“Only the wind shatters the silence. I have been here before choking in solitude.”

— Nikki Grimes

After a run of several night events, you begin to appreciate the solitude and the quiet backstage.

— Cate Blanchett

I actually like being alone. I spend most evenings reading and taking long baths.

— Shonda Rhimes

Maybe the biggest problem with loneliness is that we walk around thinking we're the only ones suffering from it.

— Jeanne Marie Laskas

It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.

— Ralph Ellison

“spirit and his solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it. But finally he had a change of heart”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“At some point, loneliness becomes less a condition than a habit.”

— Jonathan Tropper

“We are all lonely and all seek a hand to hold in the darkness. It is not the harp, but the hand…

— Bernard Cornwell

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude

— Henry David Thoreau

“xxx each of us carries his or her own solitude. We are invisible and we cannot be touched.”

— Sean Stewart

Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others.

— Richard E. Byrd

“Some of the most important moments in life are those spent alone, in quiet communion with nature.”

— Bhuwan Thapaliya

Nighttime to some, a brief interlude. To others, the fear of solitude.

— The Moody Blues