Solitude Quotes

I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain, and one remembers - as in a looking glass, darkly - one's absent friends.

~ Vincent Van Gogh

But when she finally got the wings to fly she realized she had nowhere else to go to...

~ Sanhita Baruah

No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

He celebrated his solitude with a frown.

~ R.j. Lawrence

Everyone experiences the feelings of sadness and loneliness. We might rue our lack of companionship, but some people present a desperate need for aloneness. Being alone allows a person to think, imagine, and take in nature. Because being alone is essential for specific human actions, similar to all other aspects of life, it is a gift.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The voice had an extraordinary sadness. Pure from all body, pure from all passion, going out into the world, solitary, unanswered, breaking against rocks—so it sounded.

~ Virginia Woolf

I find beauty in sadness, and peace... and a mystery waiting to be solved.. the more you unfold the mystery, the more you are mesmerized by the layers of mystery lying underneath.. and solitude becomes the perfect company for sadness..but again, the feeling you get when you realize you're not alone gives you inexplicable happiness.. and there's satisfaction in happiness and another mystery which is unknotted yet difficult to penetrate

~ Sanhita Baruah

One of the greatest acts of service you can do is to find someone who is secretly lonely and be a friend to them, if only for a day.

~ Dan Pearce

And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the seemingly uneventful and motionless moment when our future steps into us is so much closer to life than that other loud and accidental point of time when it happens to us as if from outside. The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own...

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

It's quiet for a while, and then Rowan says; We could talk now. We're alone out here. No walls.There are always walls. I say.

~ Lauren Destefano

He had been for many years, a quiet silent man, associating but little with other men, and used to companionship with his own thoughts. He had never known before the strength of the want in his heart for the frequent recognition of a nod, a look, a word; or the immense amount of relief that had been poured into it by drops through such small means.

~ Charles Dickens

If you feel all damp and lonely like a mushroom, find the thick, creamy soup of joyfulness and just dive into it in order to make life tastier

~ Munia Khan

One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)

~ Ingmar Bergman

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.

~ Patricia Highsmith

I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen in halls of fancy.

~ L.m. Montgomery

The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is characteristic of our species…the hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.

~ Anthony Storr

He could have been invisible and it wouldn’t have made a difference to them. He didn’t care, so long as he felt at ease, which was his original intention. He wasn’t there to make friends, nor did he want to.

~ Jason Medina

I gang my own gait and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude — a feeling which increases with the years.

~ Albert Einstein

I prefer solitude to companions, since there are so few men who are trustworthy, and almost none truly learned. I do not say this because I demand scholarship in all men -- although the sum total of men's learning is small enough; but I question whether we should allow anyone to waste our time. The wasting of time is an abomination.

~ Girolamo Cardano

Friends are like sugar. When you have them, you'll feel happiness. When you have too many of them, you will suffer.

~ Ade Santi

We are given these niches, small worlds of our own populated by only a handful, where we feel understood. Our bubble worlds bump into innumerable others daily, but there is so little cause to allow their integrity to be breached.

~ Thomm Quackenbush

Wherever you go in the next catastrophéBe it sickroom, or prison, or cemet’ryDo not fear that your stay will besolit’ryCountless souls share your fate,you’ll have company!

~ Roman Payne

If you make friends with yourself, you'll never be alone.

~ Maxwell Maltz

Solitude, a time for memories, a time to dream, a time for passions to simmer quietly in the dark recesses of the mind, eager to fly yet merely reflections in the minds eye...

~ Virginia Alison

It may be that I link every library to that first one - to my early childhood experience of drawing on the floor near my father's desk. A library is of course a real place, but it is also an unreal one. What happens there is mostly silent. I think I've always liked the whispering aspect of libraries, the hushing librarians and my feeling of solitude among many.

~ Siri Hustvedt

Tea is just an excuse.i am drinking this sunset, this evening.and you.

~ Sanober Khan

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self. Jesus himself entered into this furnace. There he was tempted with the three compulsions of the world: to be relevant ('turn stones into loaves'), to be spectacular ('throw yourself down'), and to be powerful ('I will give you all these kingdoms'). There he affirmed God as the only source of his identity ('You must worship the Lord your God and serve him alone'). Solitude is the place of the great struggle and the great encounter - the struggle against the compulsions of the false self, and the encounter with the loving God who offers himself as the substance of the new self.

~ Henri J.m. Nouwen

To you, whoever you are, when I am gone — remember to be kind tonight to some lonely person. For me.

~ Tennessee Williams

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect

~ Thomas Jefferson

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.

~ Elizabeth Bowen

Drifting across the vast space, silent except for wind and footsteps, I felt uncluttered and unhurried for the first time in a while, already on desert time.

~ Rebecca Solnit

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.

~ Axel Munthe

The scholar only knows how dear these silent, yet eloquent, companions of pure thoughts and innocent hours become in the season of adversity. When all that is worldly turns to dross around us, these only retain their steady value.

~ Washington Irving

Moments spent alone make us realize the value of our own thoughts. Value your solitude.

~ Avijeet Das

Benj had once said, A man must have a care to what he puts in his mind, for when he's alone on a hillside and draws it out he'll want treasures to be his company, not regrets.

~ Elizabeth Yates

He was alone with his thoughts. They were extremely unpleasant thoughts and he would rather have had a chaperon.

~ Douglas Adams

Nature is shy and noncommittal in a crowd. To learn her secrets, visit her alone or with a single friend, at most. Everything evades you, everything hides, even your thoughts escape you, when you walk in a crowd.

~ Edwin Way Teale

Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

~ Jodi Picoult

If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

~ Charles Bukowski