Quotes about solitude
solitude secret
The secret of solitude is that there is no solitude. Joseph Cook
solitude
The thought, the deadly thought of solitude. John Keats
solitude inspired
One is inspired only in solitude. Gary Gilmore
solitude
This is to be along; this, this is solitude! Lord Byron
solitude
In solitude, when we are least alone.
solitude good-times spending-time
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. Gabrielle Union
solitude world moments
There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire. Jules Renard
solitude frightened humans
All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness. Han Suyin
solitude mind secrecy
How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude! Matthew Arnold
solitude world cures
She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude? Meg Rosoff
solitude secret degrees
No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full. If others intervene, it is destroyed. This degree of thought, which we attain by freeing ourselves from the external world, must be fed by the inner spirit, and our surroundings cannot influence us in any way other than to leave us in peace. Maria Montessori
solitude endurance isolation
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance. Jules Verne
solitude reason my-friends
It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
solitude easy born
It is not easy to be solitary unless you are also born ruthless. Every solitary repudiates someone. Jessamyn West
solitude ifs thoughtlessness
If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. Leonardo da Vinci
solitude innocence ifs
If you would live innocently, seek solitude. Publilius Syrus
solitude gregarious persons
Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more. Nelson Mandela
solitude done suspects
Nothing can be done without solitude. I've created my own solitude which nobody suspects Pablo Picasso
solitude strange introvert
Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it. Liv Tyler
solitude important detachment
There is nothing harder to come by than detachment and solitude; and nothing more important. Marya Mannes
solitude whimsy begets
Solitude begets whimsies. Mary Wortley Montagu
solitude persons mines
The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine. Martha Beck
solitude world noise
Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world. Oswald Chambers
solitude made capacity
Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves. Michel de Montaigne
solitude boring wells
If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well. Mark Twain
solitude weapons way
Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude. Frank Muir
solitude beast grows
In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many. Friedrich Nietzsche
solitude may speak
'He who seeks may easily get lost himself. It is a crime to go apart and be alone.' Thus speaks the herd.
solitude sometimes
Solitude is sometimes the best society. John Milton
solitude fiction existential
Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude. Jonathan Franzen
solitude poet emily
[Emily] Dickinson, our supreme poet of inwardness. Joyce Carol Oates
solitude might quiet
Quiet is might. Solitude is strength. Introversion is power. Laurie Helgoe
solitude introvert make-sense
Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future.