Solitude Quotes - Page 15

They make solitude, which they call peace.

Do not allow yourself to be imprisoned by any affection. Keep your solitude. The day, if it ever comes, when you are given true affection, there will be no opposition between interior solitude and friendship, quite the reverse. It is even by this infallible sigh that you will recognize it.

A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

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.

Solitude is the mother of anxieties.

Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together.

In music everything is prolonged, everything is edified, and when the enchantment has ceased, we are still bathed in its clarity; solitude is accompanied by a new hope between pity for ourselves - which makes us more indulgent and more understanding - and the certitude of finding something again, that which lives for ever in music.

Being alone and liking it is, for a woman, an act of treachery, an infidelity far more threatening than adultery.

If you're alone with nothing to do, the quality of your experience really plummets.

Everyday, spend some time in solitude to repair the damages done by the crowds!

Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.

One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.

Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh.

The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.

We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must take it upon himself.

I feel strongly that the God we meet in solitude is always the God who calls us to community.

By all means use sometimes to be alone.

One way leads to acquisition, the other leads to nirvana. Realising this a monk should take no pleasure in the respect of others, but should devote himself to solitude.

More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

I wonder if living alone makes one more alive. No precious energy goes in disagreement or compromise. No need to augment others, there is just yourself, just truth - a morsel - and you.

Solitude is un-American.

'Tis they who are in their own chambers haunted By thoughts that like unbidden guests intrude, And sit down, uninvited and unwanted, And make a nightmare of the solitude.