Solitude Quotes · Page 78

I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.

— Thomas Merton

If we don't know how to be alone, we'll only know how to be lonely.

— Sherry Turkle

I had drawn away into the salt, myself, a shell emptied of life.

— Hilda Doolittle

Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering.

— Townes Van Zandt

Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

But solitude is sadness.' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.

— Charlotte Bronte

Marriage is the only thing that affords a woman the pleasure of company and the perfect sensation of solitude at the same…

— Helen Rowland

“It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

The only person who can set me free is me. Until then, I will remain in silence wrapped in these chains of…

— Nicole Hill

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not…

— George Santayana

Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and…

— Laurie Helgoe

We who live in quiet places have the opportunity to become acquainted with ourselves, to think our own thoughts and live our…

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

Because she favours solitude and indwelling, an artist can live a significantly more claustrophobic life that she had ever intended.

— Eric Maisel

There is no such thing as living alone, for all living is relationship; but to live without direct relationship demands high intelligence,…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Loneliness is not lack of companion; it is the absence of the right people in our life. That is why we are…

— M.F. Moonzajer

Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

— Paul Auster

“I am not very sociable and am always glad to return to solitude and the freedom that goes with solitude. This desire…

— Aldous Huxley

“On a long flight, after periods of crisis and many hours of fatigue, mind and body may become disunited until at times…

— Charles A. Lindbergh

“I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond…

— Charles Bukowski

“Cities can be lonely places, and in admitting this we see that loneliness doesn't necessarily require physical solitude, but rather an absence…

— Olivia Laing

“In Letters to a Young Poe , Rilke says, 'The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person's…

— Kristen Kosmas

A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime.…

— Oscar Wilde

The world doesn’t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of…

— Betsy Lerner

“I need exercise and solitude. This time of confinement has threatened my sanity!”

— Larry Niven

“One of the best collaborations is between social and solitude.”

— Ted Agon

Sometimes, the loneliness probably got to be too much and anyone seemed better than no one.

— Gena Showalter

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still…

— Paul Theroux

“No better school invented yet than the school of loneliness in the matters of understanding our deep-self!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

For solitude is sometimes best society, And short retirement urges sweet return

— John Milton

Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude.

— Matthew Arnold

but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Solitude helps you to convert your time into the clarity of purpose.”

— Sunday Adelaja

The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“If we seek solitary retreat, you will be more often refreshed.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“The pleasure of nostalgia is never without its companion, loneliness.”

— Anonymous

I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.

— Elayne Boosler

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

— A. R. Rahman

The deepest need of the human being is to overcome our separateness, to leave the prison of our loneliness.

— Erich Fromm