Solitude Quotes - page 4

Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me. (Fernando Pessoa)
This world was created from God's fear of solitude. In other words, us, the creatures, have no other meaning but to distract the Creator. Poor clowns of the absolute, we forget that we live dramas for the boredom of a spectator, whose claps have never reached the ears of a mortal. View quote
Emil Cioran
We replace God as best we can; for every god is good, provided he perpetuates in eternity our desire for a crucial solitude.... View quote
Emil Cioran
Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave. At home, a friend, abroad, an introduction, in solitude a solace and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives at once grace and government to genius. Without it, what is man A splendid slave, a reasoning savage. View quote
Joseph Addison
This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours! View quote
William Wilberforce
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. View quote
Jodi Picoult
Solitude begets whimsies. View quote
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age. View quote
George Santayana
What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship, religion, science, and art . View quote
George Santayana
With Jackson there was quiet solitude. Just to sit and look at the landscape. An inner quietness. After dinner, to sit on the back porch and look at the light. No need for talking. For any kind of communication. View quote
Lee Krasner
I always tell my students that Malcolm X came both to his spirituality and to his consciousness as a thinker when he had solitude to read. Unfortunately, tragically, like so many young black males, that solitude only came in prison. (Bell hooks)
I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer. View quote
Will Self
Ah! two desires toss about The poet's feverish blood; One drives him to the world without, And one to solitude. View quote
Matthew Arnold
Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused. View quote
Dean Koontz
A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it. View quote
Don DeLillo
I was thinking, too, of Superman and his fortress of solitude. View quote
Michael Chabon
In life there are certain sores which, like a kind of canker, slowly erode the soul in solitude. View quote
Sadegh Hedayat
As a poet I hold the most archaic values on earth . . . the fertility of the soil, the magic of animals, the power-vision in solitude, the terrifying initiation and rebirth, the love and ecstasy of the dance, the common work of the tribe. I try to hold both history and the wilderness in mind, that my poems may approach the true measure of things and stand against the unbalance and ignorance of our times. View quote
Gary Snyder
It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason. View quote
Jules Verne
Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you. View quote
Harold Bloom
But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude. (Harold Bloom)
Solitude is separate experience. View quote
Alice Meynell
Solitude is the mother of anxieties. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. View quote
Thomas Mann
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. View quote
Samuel Beckett