Top Solitude Quotes

Once a person has become detached from his possessions, his customary duties, his moments of solitude, where is he? What is he?

Care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

Solitude Definition

(a.) state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness.

(a.) Remoteness from society; destitution of company; seclusion; -- said of places; as, the solitude of a wood.

(a.) solitary or lonely place; a desert or wilderness.

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

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

Sometimes you just have to turn off the lights, sit in the dark, and see what happens inside of you.

She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she disco...

Only those who spend long times with themselves can touch the depths of life!

It is not good for man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species. A world from which solitude is extirpated is a very poor ideal. Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is...

I am a free soul, singing my heart out by myself no matter where I go and I call strangers my friends because I learn things and find ways to fit them into my own world. I hear what people say, rearra...

All I have is me, myself and I and we are all getting really tired of each other.

Solitude is where I place my chaos to rest and awaken my inner peace.

We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in solitary confinement.

Sometimes solitude is a real heaven for the tired minds and a marvellous sanctuary for the wounded souls!

What if you spent some alone time every morning? Call it prayer. Call it planning. Call it centering. I call it a powerful way to begin the day.

I have found no other cure for loneliness than to befriend it.

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.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

She day-dreams just as I do. She is addicted to her solitude just as I am. She loves watching the rain-drops fall slowly on to the green leaves of an old guava tree just as I do. She loves drifting in...

One of the most powerful lessons silence teach us is to ponder

What an ambiance, and such a pity I'm alone: Candles giving off their glow, gusts of wind and the light tapping of rain on the windowpane - a massage for the mind. And a comforting one, too.