Solitude Quotes - Page 5

To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction.

Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.

What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that is what you must be able to attain. To be solitary as you were when you were a child.

Introverts are collectors of thoughts, and solitude is where the collection is curated and rearranged to make sense of the present and future.

Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.

Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude.

Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.

A writer takes earnest measures to secure his solitude and then finds endless ways to squander it.

To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world.

The cure for all the illness of life is stored in the inner depth of life itself, the access to which becomes possible when we are alone. This solitude is a world in itself, full of wonders and resources unthought of. It is absurdly near; yet so unapproachably distant.

The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.

Only the bad man is alone.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.

Solitude matters. And for some people it's the air they breathe.

Sometimes during solitude I hear truth spoken with clarity and freshness; uncolored and untranslated it speaks from within myself in a language original but inarticulate, heard only with the soul, and I realize I brought it with me, was never taught it nor can I efficiently teach it to another.

There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem The crystal ball up on the wall hasn't shown me nothing yet I've paid the price of solitude, but at last I'm out of debt

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so we tell ourselves. But it's a long way from the morning to the evening.

Seclusion is the price of greatness.

Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.

In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.

It is hardly an exaggeration to say that a chimpanzee kept in solitude is not a real chimpanzee at all.

On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.