Solitude Quotes

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

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

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.

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

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.

Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

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

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.

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

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

I really do work in solitude.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

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.