Solitude Quotes - Page 18

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude.

If there be a regal solitude, it is a sick-bed. How the patient lords it there!

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

Imagination flourishes best in solitude.

Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.

Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!

I owe my solitude to other people.

Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die

But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.

Love is nothing but the fear of mortal man at the thought of solitude.

Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.

The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

Solitude and privacy have become more essential to the individual; but modern enterprise and invention have, through invasions upon his privacy, subjected him to mental pain and distress.

I love my solitude, and I would love it still more if I had more of it.

Now I see that all relationships are virtual, even those that take place in person. Whether we use our bodies or a keyboard, it all comes down to two minds crying out from their solitude.

No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.

In solitude, at last, we’re able to let God define us the way we are always supposed to be defined—by relationship: the I-thou relationship, in relation to a Presence that demands nothing of us but presence itself. Not performance but presence

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can be an agreeable passage of time. In fact, solitude then becomes a kind of companion.

There is no insurmountable solitude.

Solitude is the profoundest fact

A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests.

Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more.

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.