Solitude Quotes - Page 3

Solitude was my only consolation - deep, dark, deathlike solitude.

Solitude is independence.

If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.

Let those who would affect singularity with success first determine to be very virtuous, and they will be sure to be very singular.

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.

When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown.

Every so often a disappearance is in order. A vanishing. A checking out. An indeterminate period of unavailability. Each person, each sane person, maintains a refuge, or series of refuges, for this purpose. A place, or places, where they can, figuratively if not literally, suspend their membership in the human race.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.

If we are incapable of finding peace in ourselves, it is pointless to search elsewhere.

In all the splendor of solitude... it is a test of myself, and one thing I loathe is to have to test myself in front of other people.

There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is unlike that of any others in the twenty-four, and which I cannot explain or account for. Thoughts come to me at this time that I never have at any other.

A place of solitude offers a retreat from the opposing forces and diverse demands of living, an entry into a state of peace and unity. Mind and body can retire from confusion and conflict to a sanctuary of clarity and harmony

Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it.

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the false self.

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.

She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.

True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One's inner voices become audible... In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives.

You only grow when you are alone.

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people.

Sorrow and solitude, these are the precious things/ And the only words that are worth remembering.

Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge.