Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carl Rogers

I prize the privilege of being alone.

William Wilberforce

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

Charles Phillips

Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality.

Elizabeth Bowen

Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which you say "Oh look!" Nobody was beside her to share the moment, which would have been imperfect with anyone else there.

Elfriede Jelinek

After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.

Brandon Sanderson

And Vin liked solitude. When you're alone, no one can betray you

Eleanor Catton

Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.

Edward Abbey

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

Alberto Giacometti

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

Aldous Huxley

A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.

Albert Einstein

I have always loved solitude, a trait which tends to increase with age.

He who understands humanity seeks solitude

Adrienne Rich

Marriage is lonelier than solitude.

Adam Phillips

Transgression is a quest for solitude

Greta Garbo

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

For myself, solitude is rather like a folded-up forest that I carry with me everywhere and unfurl around myself when I have need.

Claude Monet

One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.

William Shakespeare

Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.

Alice Meynell

Solitude is separate experience.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

Albert Camus

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

Albert Camus

There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.

Albert Camus

Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me to die alone, after having lived and killed alone.

Albert Camus

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Don DeLillo

A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

Doris Lessing

I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.

Donna Tartt

I really do work in solitude.

Douglas Kennedy

There is much to be said for solitude.

Anthony Burgess

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

Andy Rooney

The great virtue of being alone is that your mind can go its own way.

Andre Gide

Solitude is bearable only with God.

Anais Nin

Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.

Anais Nin

Solitude may rust your words.