Solitude Quotations
Authors that have more than 2 quotes:
Henry David Thoreau
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| Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. |
| - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus |
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| Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry up. |
| - Pearl S. Buck |
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| There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. |
| - Colette |
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| In solitude, where we are least alone. |
| - George Gordon |
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| For those uneasy with the world, solitude is the only guarantee of confidence. |
| - Terri Guillemets |
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| We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart... and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together.... I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude. |
| - Helen Hayes |
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| With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. |
| - Eric Hoffer |
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| It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe. |
| - Victor Hugo |
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| A large, still book is a piece of quietness, succulent and nourishing in a noisy world, which I approach and imbibe with "a sort of greedy enjoyment," as Marcel Proust said of those rooms of his old home whose air was "saturated with the bouquet of silence." |
| - Holbrook Jackson |
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| Man loves company even if it is only that of a small burning candle. |
| - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg |
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| The great omission in American life is solitude; not loneliness, for this is an alienation that thrives most in the midst of crowds, but that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incubator of the spirit. |
| - Marya Mannes |
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| Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul. |
| - John Muir |
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| True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. |
| - William Penn |
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| When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| There is a privacy about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself. |
| - Ruth Stout |
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| I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude. |
| - Paul Tillich |
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| The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude. |
| - Voltaire |
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| I owe my solitude to other people. |
| - Alan Watts |
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