Solitude Quotes · Page 63

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.

— Jeanette Winterson

“I am not loitering" said the Major. "I am simply indulging in a few moments of pastoral solitude"...”

— Helen Simonson

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Without solitude, we cannot fix the scattered pieces of our plans, hopes, wishes together.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“I was doing well enough until you came along and kicked my stone over, and out I came, all moss and eyes.”

— Djuna Barnes

“Cooking out and hanging out aren't really my things," I admit. "I prefer delivery and solitude.”

— J.M. Darhower

Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.

— Thomas Merton

Privacy and loneliness were the traditional luxuries accorded to a skipper.

— Tom Clancy

“Solitude creeps into my bones like winter. Slowly Steadily Suddenly Like the cold and the dark. I am alone, but I am…

— Melody Lee

“And then a scholar said, "Speak of talking." And he answered, saying: "And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude…

— Khalil Gibran

“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

Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me,…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“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

“All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a…

— Virginia Woolf

Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache so she set things up to live as…

— Anonymous

Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way, whereas…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,'…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“ The Lake In spring of youth it was my lot To haunt of the wide world a spot The which I…

— Edgar Allan Poe

Every so often a disappearance is in order. A vanishing. A checking out. An indeterminate period of unavailability. Each person, each sane…

— John Murray

The true use of Shakespeare or of Cervantes, of Homer or of Dante, of Chaucer or of Rabelais, is to augment one's…

— Harold Bloom

“What is there left for me after my purgatory of solitude?...I welcome death as a version of life in which I will…

— J. M. Coetzee

“I was born the 26th of December. . . Arrive by dint of perseverance, but step by step. . . Tenancy to…

— Henry Miller

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. [It allows you to] be the Mungo Park, the Lewis and…

— Henry David Thoreau

“every night, when he didn't want to be alone, or to age or die, with that set expression he assumed which she…

— Albert Camus

Loneliness is like quicksand, once you're in it, it's hard to get out of.

— Anonymous

The fear inside of loneliness: That only what others have is real.

— Liv Ullmann

“Only those who spend long times with themselves can touch the depths of life!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“Solitude doesn’t kill a person; it grants peace to the soul and mind.”

— Ayoub Imilouane

A lot of people are lonely. A lot of people are lonely even when they're surrounded by other people.

— Sloane Crosley

“Nothing has the power to remind you how alone you are like walking through a conglomeration of empty skyscrapers.”

— Matthew Tysz

Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety, you fight for the throne and you travel alone.

— Bob Dylan

“Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.”

— Sarah Orne Jewett

Everybody likes to see the loner hitched. It tells them everything is right with the world.

— Philip O Ceallaigh

Lonely isn't having no one around you, it's the feeling that there is no one around you who cares.

— Anonymous

If you aren't constantly astonished at God's grace in your solitude, there's no way it can happen in public.

— Timothy Keller

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.

— Charles Bukowski

I used to do everything to keep a wall up around myself and keep my life quiet so that I could write.

— Ann Patchett

I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.

— Henry David Thoreau

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

— Edith Wharton

I have way more eye contact with my computer screen than I do with any humans.

— Anonymous