Solitude Quotes · Page 81

The loneliness of another can be shocking when it lays itself bare without warning.

— Dennis Lehane

Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self.

— Carl Rogers

“You are the richest person if you own the treasures of both the solitude and the togetherness!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A dwelling should be not a retreat from space, but life in space.

— Laszlo Moholy-Nagy

Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not…

— David Markson

Few people know much about me. I've been so quiet that I'm known as a recluse.

— Urmila Matondkar

Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.

— Anonymous

“When it is recognized that there is nothing beyond what is seen of the mind itself, the discrimination of being and non-being…

— Jack Kerouac

Come let us mock at the good That fancied goodness might be gay, And sick of solitude Might proclaim a holiday: Wind…

— William Butler Yeats

“One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend…

— Dan Pearce

“We rarely find answers in the distractions. But oh what possibilities live within the quiet of solitude. In my fear to be…

— Scott Stabile

The psyches and souls of women also have their own cycles and seasons of doing and solitude, running and staying, being involved…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled…

— Mark Twain

When people are ignored for most of their lives their eyes become cold as ice and they start to believe that they…

— Anonymous

Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be…

— Emile M. Cioran

“During this week, Ragan has experience a bit of insecurity with me, the result of my being quieter than usual, which he…

— Phyllis Theroux

“It was the first time i had been alone for five days. I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it…

— Charles Bukowski

“Another week of emptiness, of solitude, though the schooner was fully crewed and there were few places where someone could be out…

— R.A. Salvatore

“The black land slid by and he was going into the country among the hills. For the first time in a dozen…

— Ray Bradbury

“Silence and solitude are universally recognized spiritual practices, and there are good reasons for this. Learning how to discipline your speech is…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' -…

— Gabrielle Union

African-Americans assume I'm named after the notorious Soledad prison or Mount Soledad in California. Latinos want to know if I'm lonely. That…

— Soledad O'Brien

You should always aim to be your own mouse, Lieam. In fact...you already are. You are not so quick to jump into…

— David Petersen

Solitude is the soul's holiday, an opportunity to stop doing for others and to surprise and delight ourselves instead.

— Katrina Kenison

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

— Samuel Johnson

“In torment, there was release. In the darkness, there was light. In solitude, there were companions.”

— C.C. Humphreys

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

— Robert Anton Wilson

“In the place of solitude, you are able to take advantage of time and bring forth children in the form of products.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Life is just full of disordered pieces of unachieved plans without solitude.”

— Sunday Adelaja

I like the idea of going to one of those retreats where you don't speak - like, silence for five days.

— Madonna Ciccone

“From whence cometh the pounding of desire if not from the depths of loneliness?”

— Martin Cosgrove

Solitude, community, and ministry are certainly not just for celibates! Celibates also have a hard time keeping up.

— Henri Nouwen

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

— Pablo Picasso

I've lived on my own since I was 18, and I really love living alone. That, to me, is just great.

— Danielle Fishel

“Loneliness means when you have no one to celebrate your success with and share your pains.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

“Solitude does strange things to a man. When it's just you & your soul, you better be friends.”

— Diane Owens Prettyman

“—Quína solitut!— murmurà aterrada y sentint que'l cor li devenía, d'improvís, tant o més ubach que aquelles pregoneses.”

— Víctor Català

Solitude is the most fertile land that yields the bumper crop of mind's creativity.

— Anuj Somany

Apply yourself to solitude. One who is given to solitude knows things as they really are.

— Gautama Buddha