Solitude Quotes

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

Paul Johannes Tillich

I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.

Brenda Ueland

It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self - Centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self - Reliance

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Johann von Goethe

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Octavio Paz

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

Robert Cecil

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Publilius Syrus

I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

Han Suyin

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without.

John Stuart Mill

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Carl Sandburg