Solitude Quotes

"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."

"I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

"Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present."

"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

"The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in."

"I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment."

"I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best."

"In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the brute also."

"Isolation is the gift."

"Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."

"I want to be alone for a while. I want to sit in the sun and read a book."

"Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist."

"I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of solitude and the safety from being understood."

"I am rooted, but I flow."

"A certain capacity to endure boredom is therefore essential to a happy life."

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

"The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude."

"I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."

"In an age of speed, nothing is more invigorating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing is so luxurious as paying attention."

"Solitude is a state in which your mind is evened out and you are not reacting to input from other minds."

"Solitude is a catalyst for innovation."

"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom."

"Love your solitude and bear with sweet-sounding lamentation the suffering it causes you."

"Writing, at its best, is a lonely life."

"Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living."

"I want to be alone and let my mind and soul breathe."

"Without solitude it is virtually impossible to live a spiritual life."

"Real rewards are reserved for those who can sit in a room alone with a thought."

"Solitude is a state in which your mind is even free from the input of other minds."