Solitude Quotes · Page 75

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

— Salvatore Quasimodo

But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.

— Thomas Merton

“We weren't meant to live forever, nor dwell in solitude. A life without change is no life.”

— Mark Lawrence

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

— John Berger

Quiet people get the most accomplished cause their next move is always unknown.

— Anonymous

“To be happy to be sad and sad to be happy is to sing an echo in that beautiful language called Sorrow.”

— Criss Jami

in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

— Vicki Baum

“Those that care for their career, more than their relationship, can find themselves alone.”

— Anthony Liccione

I can be by myself because I'm never lonely, I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity…

— Bohumil Hrabal

“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

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

— Jessica Sorensen

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

— Martin Heidegger

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

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

— Rachel Kushner

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

— Owen Jones

Time for solitude. God, I ask you to remake my heart. Fill it with what You love. Remove from it what You…

— Yasmin Mogahed

“Loneliness is a very special place. It isn’t always easy to see the truth of Wilson’s statement, but over the course of…

— Olivia Laing

Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At…

— Joseph Addison

When you feel that you are a lonely, put-upon, isolated little stranger confronting all this, you are under the influence of an…

— Alan Watts

So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat.…

— Virginia Woolf

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of…

— Betty Smith

“I woke up early and took the first train to take me away from the city. The noise and all its people.…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to companionship with his…

— Charles Dickens

If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain…

— Helen Keller

Loneliness Is A Special Enjoyment When Chosen By Our self..!! But Hard To Digest When Gifted By Others.

— Anonymous

Loneliness Is A Special Enjoyment When Chosen By Ourself.. But Hard To Digest When Gifted By Others..!

— Ritu Ghatourey

“One of the things you could do with your time is to convert it into a treasure and that treasure is called…

— Sunday Adelaja

Loneliness is dangerous. Its addicting. Once you see how peaceful it is, you dont wanna deal with people.

— Anonymous

“In order to escape a road of solitude, one has to work hard, and forge a new path with their own power!”

— Masashi Kishimoto

Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I'm always happy when I'm left alone, but if somebody comes and is nice, then we talk.

— Maximilian Schell

“The most terrifying specter that haunts the modern psyche is not death or disease or nuclear annihilation. It is loneliness.”

— Terryl L. Givens

“Unclaimed or abandoned bodies. There could be no stronger definition of loneliness.”

— David Grant Urban

Sometimes, it's better to be alone to know how your world goes around without the help of anybody else.

— Anonymous

“Solitude allows you to be able to arrange your life only around your destiny.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

— Criss Jami

“At times, when loneliness seems to crush all beauty, the only way to resist is to remain open.”

— Paulo Coelho