Solitude Quotes - Page 6

A man must keep a little back shop where he can be himself without reserve. In solitude alone can he know true freedom.

Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society.

I like people. I like watching them. It's just that I'd prefer to do it from a mile away using very powerful binoculars.

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.

No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.

I became bold because I had absolutely nothing to lose: neither honors, nor earnings, nor friends. I had to find myself anew and rely only on myself, because I could rely on no one else. My form is my solitude.

I am thinking of you in my sleepless solitude tonight.

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

Beauty has no other origin than the singular wound, different in every case, hidden or visible, which each man bears within himself, which he preserves, and into which he withdraws when he would quit the world for a temporary but authentic solitude

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.

Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.

Most people have never known solitude.... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.

Wise people are never less alone than when they are alone.

I will be free, no lover's kiss to bind me to earth, no bliss of love to counteract actual bliss.

A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return.

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.

There were too many lemmings - that was the core of their difficulty. None wanted solitude, but a crowd of this size was a torment. Being sensitive little beasts, they became overstimulated by superfluous numbers of their own kind. They had tried to escape, but with pitiable irony, all tried to escape together.

If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.

She would not exchange her solitude for anything. Never again to be forced to move to the rhythms of others.

The cat makes himself the companion of your hours of solitude, melancholy and toil.