Solitude Quote by Salman Rushdie

“Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to…

— Barbara Kingsolver

“In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude…

— L.M. Montgomery

“Sometimes a moment of solitude is just a faded sorrow. You remember fringes of it, but forgot most of it. Moved on from the…

— Crestless Wave

“You could see that her tremendous inside life, its solitary fears and fires, was out of accord with her humble view of herself; to…

— Elizabeth Bowen

“She revered solitude, but only because there was the possibility of breaking it. Of communing at last with another.”

— Amanda Coplin

“She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of herself in others' eyes. She does not dare to…

— Anaïs Nin

“And still the strange meaningless conversations continue, and I wonder more and more at the fabric which nets the world together, so that anything…

— Vita Sackville-West

“She had no idea how to cope with life and she was only vaguely aware of her own inner emptiness. Were she capable of…

— Clarice Lispector

“Unerring solitude forces a person to confront their morality and aloneness. Solitude makes personal confession possible.”

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need…

— Virginia Woolf

“She is entirely in her closed eyes, and quite alone with her soul, in the bosom of the most intimate attention... She feels in…

— Paul Valéry

“Nevertheless, in the impenetrable solitude of decrepitude she had such a clairvoyance as she examined the most insignificant happenings in the family that for…

— Gabriel García Márquez