Solitude Quotes

"The deepest sense of being is found in solitude."

"In all of us there is something deeply moving about human loneliness."

"Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character."

"Every individual has a private world within the human consciousness."

"Solitude is the price of greatness, and few are willing to pay it."

"In solitude, we discover who we truly are beneath the masks."

"Solitude is necessary for the soul."

"Solitude brings clarity."

"Silence is the greatest respect one can show to another."

"Solitude is where the soul learns to speak its own language."

"The contemplative life teaches us what the active life cannot."

"The capacity to be alone is the capacity to love"

"Loneliness is not the absence of company, but the absence of understanding"

"The night is my companion, and solitude is my sanity."

"A book is the only place in which we can still find solitude."

"Companionship with solitude is better than solitude alone."

"Some souls are meant to be solitary wanderers."

"Solitude purifies you."

"A writer who does not love solitude will never be a true writer."

"In the silence between heartbeats, we find the truth."

"Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine."

"Every man is an island, and the water rises daily."

"The self is a prison we willingly inhabit."

"One might enumerate the many ways that solitude is a blessing and a curse."

"Solitude is not loneliness; it is the company of one's own thoughts."

"Between myself and the world, I prefer myself."

"I understood then that there is no position for me to take in this struggle; I had nothing to do with it; I hadn't made this absurd world."

"Solitude is where one discovers oneself; in company we merely perform."

"In solitude we are never truly alone; we are in company with our deepest thoughts and truest selves."

"I am not afraid of being lonely."