Solitude Quotes

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

I needed to be in the bush. There I find solitude and beauty and purity and focus. That's where my heart lies.

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

Solitude is the place of purification.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude.

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.

Everyone needs solitude, especially a person who is used to thinking about what she experiences. Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.