Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Jefferson

The bloom of Monticello is chilled by my solitude.

Tacitus

They make solitude, which they call peace.

Stephanie Mills

Solitude is rich but seldom hilarious.

Soren Kierkegaard

On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.

Thomas Gray

Sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind.

Thomas Gray

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.

Samuel Rogers

Then never less alone than when alone.

Richard Rohr

In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence

Sarah Hall

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

Samuel Johnson

Study requires solitude, and solitude is a state dangerous to those who are too much accustomed to sink into themselves

Virginia Woolf

. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

Virginia Woolf

But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.

Witold Gombrowicz

Beauty beheld in solitude is even more lethal.

Witold Gombrowicz

I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.

William Drummond

Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not alone, But doth converse with that eternal love.

Wade Davis

Risk discomfort and solitude for understanding.

Samuel Beckett

Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

Samuel Beckett

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.

Ralph Ellison

It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Isolation must precede true society.

Laurie Helgoe

Quiet is might. Solitude is strength. Introversion is power.

Laurie Helgoe

Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We walk alone in the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

Marcus Aurelius

He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers.

Salvatore Quasimodo

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

Vita Sackville-West

The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others; he will feel that time spent in company is time lost; he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.

Roland Barthes

I have not a desire but a need for solitude.

Simone Weil

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

Thomas Mann

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

Thomas Merton

I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face.