Solitude Quotes

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

I really do work in solitude.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

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

All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don't interest me.

I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

I didn't choose solitude.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

Solitude is un-American.

I owe my solitude to other people.

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.

Solitude begets whimsies.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.