Parenting Quote by Sue Lynn Tan

“There is so much obligatory generosity to being a good mother, a good wife, a good friend. Solitude is an acceptable form of selfishness.”

— Anna Quindlen

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

— Amanda Coplin

“I felt that my whole life was bound to go on in the same solitude and helpless dreariness, from which I myself had no…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Alone. She realized how much she had missed the luxury of solitude, and knew that its occasional comfort would always be essential to her.…

— Rosamunde Pilcher

“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

“Solitude is a time when you go into a determined period of making the best of your time.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“It sometimes takes a state of solitude to bring to mind the real power of companionship.”

— Stephen Richards

“It was easier with Mother--always had been--less complicated, less treacherous. I didn't have to be on my guard so much. I didn't have to…

— Khaled Hosseini And The Mountains Echoed

“solitude was in its own way a balm for loneliness.”

— Diana Gabaldon

“The rhythm of solitude, once so intimidating, began to feel comfortable. Aloneness, I was learning, does not have to equal loneliness.”

— John Grogan

“...solitude is not to be recommended to everyone, for you have to be strong in order to bear it and act alone.”

— Paul Gauguin

“She bade solitude good-bye. Good-bye to no schedule but whim; good-bye to her life among no things but her own and each always in…

— Annie Dillard