Solitude Quotes - page 3

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude. (John Stuart Blackie)
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
He has the manner of a giant with the look of a child, a lazy activeness, a mad wisdom, a solitude encompassing the world. View quote
Jean Cocteau
I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. View quote
Jorge Luis Borges
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. View quote
Albert Einstein
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Reading takes solitude and it takes focus. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines. View quote
Paul Brunton
From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to produce community and in many people hope and joy. (Junot Diaz)
I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space. View quote
Iris Chang
To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude. View quote
Jeanne Moreau
It's practically my subject, my theme: solitude and community; the weirdness and terrors of solitude: the stifling and consolations of community. Also, the consolations of solitude. View quote
Derek Mahon
Even if loving meant leaving, or solitude, or sorrow, love was worth every penny of its price. View quote
Paulo Coelho
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable as solitude. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
In a solitude of the sea Deep from human vanity, And the Pride of Life that planned her, stilly couches she. View quote
Thomas Hardy
And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of metal in their own separate orbits. From far off they look like beautiful shooting stars, but in reality they're nothing more than prisons, where each of us is locked up alone, going nowhere. When the orbits of these two satellites of ours happened to cross paths, we could be together. Maybe even open our hearts to each other. But that was only for the briefest moment. In the next instant we'd be in absolute solitude. Until we burned up and became nothing. View quote
Haruki Murakami
I repose in this quiet and secluded spot not from any natural preference for solitude, but finding other cemeteries limited as to race by charter rules, I have chosen this that I might illustrate in my death the principles which I advocated through a long life: EQUALITY OF MAN BEFORE HIS CREATOR. View quote
Thaddeus Stevens
Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart. View quote
Alexis de Tocqueville
No one can endure his own solitude. (André Malraux)
Though man's feeling for the other-worldly often has recourse to solitude, solitude does not foster its development; rather, it is nourished by communion, to which the church is more propitious than the cemetery. View quote
André Malraux
I do not believe that there was ever a question of being abstract or representational. It is really a matter of ending this silence and solitude, of breathing, and stretching one's arms again transcendental experiences became possible. View quote
Mark Rothko
I took a great deal of pleasure in it, and I still feel nostalgic about it. However, I felt that it had led me to live in a parallel world of pure invention, shut inside my solitude. Naturally, it was precisely for that purpose that it was made and that was why I took pleasure in it, but I wanted to regain body and roots. View quote
Jean Dubuffet
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind. View quote
Giacomo Leopardi