Solitude Quotes

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. Henry David Thoreau
Friendship Solitude Three Society Had House Chairs Two
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement. Alice Koller
Alone Achievement Solitude Own Others Solitary Immersed Rather Absence Well Well-Being Because Won Than Being Being Alone Choice Your Fullness Aware Presence
It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me. Jodie Foster
War Alone Great Me Experience Solitude Fear Desperate Solitary Having Combination Always Been Tug Being Being Alone Interesting Need
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Solitude Darkness Poet Own Sweet Poetry Cheer Sounds Sings Who
Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places. A. R. Rahman
Solitude Inner Voice Voice Crowded Divinity Hear Places Your Even Inner Need
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 Tillich
Alone Loneliness Solitude Word Language Pain Our Sides Wisely Glory Being Sensed Being Alone Created Express Two
It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Solitude Own Find My Own Only Ever Core
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness. Dag Hammarskjold
Friendship Loneliness Needs Solitude Words Anguish No Words Delivered
It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude. H. P. Lovecraft
Silence Mistake Solitude Darkness Horror Inextricably Fancy Associated
I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness. Karen Armstrong
Silence Solitude Lose Loner Like Without Gregarious
Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Alone Women Solitude Will Relationships Find Web Only Indispensable Firm True Springs Essence Human Order Center Which Again Themselves Certain Strand Whole Human Relationships Need
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. Anthony Hopkins
Solitude People Personality Own Relationships Bit Solitary My Own Major Like Am Friendships Person Any Being
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. Edward Gibbon
Conversation Solitude Genius School Understanding
Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone. Lord Byron
Alone Solitude Feeling Felt Least Infinite Where Then
It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it. Rainer Maria Rilke
Good Solitude Difficult Solitary Must Something More Us Reason
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances. William Powell
Noise Solitude Few Thousands Rather Sincere Merriment Cultivate Mob Friends Than Quiet Acquaintances
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. Octavio Paz
Alone Man Solitude Only Fact He Knows Condition Human Being Human Condition Who Profoundest
Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God. Saint Francis de Sales
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There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Freedom You Solitude Wine Poison Others Bitter Beat Head Days Heady Makes Still Wall Against Your Tonic
There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while. Tom Hanks
Loneliness Solitude Between Concept Understand Difference Being While Monk
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. Washington Irving
Solitude Affliction Duty Every Other Consider Brood Wound Seek Only Open Divorced Over Heal Dead Sorrow Cherish Forget Refuse Which Keep
It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives. Brendan Myers
Loneliness Me Experience Solitude People Isolation Some Point Clear Most Encounter Anyone Anywhere Lives Things
I like solitude. I'm very good at being disconnected. I do a lot of disappearing. People who know me go, 'Oh yeah, Mailman, she's gone into her cave again.' I'm like that, a bit of a hibernating bear. Like that crocodile that just sits there in the water and doesn't do much. I was always a bit of a dreamer as a kid, so that hasn't changed. Deborah Mailman
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The strongest reason for giving woman all the opportunities for higher education, for the full development of her faculties, her forces of mind and body... is the solitude and personal responsibility of her own individual life. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Life Education Woman Solitude Opportunities Mind Responsibility Giving Higher Education Own Strongest Higher Individual Individual Life Faculties Development Forces Personal Personal Responsibility Body Full Reason Her
Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty. Moliere
Soul Solitude Twenty
I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely. Paul Theroux
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