146 Solitude Quotes for You to Enjoy

I'm learning not to hold on so tightly to my solitude. It's not an economical way to work. A driver would call it 'white-knuckling.' If you're holding on to the wheel so tightly, it's gonna lock up your driving. Releasing myself from trying to control everything has been part of growing up. Ben Foster

Work Myself You Learning Solitude Control Holding Everything Way Lock Releasing Has-Been Would Driver Driving Part Economical Call Tightly Been Up Trying Wheel Hold Holding On Gonna Your Growing Growing Up

In Old Havana, the names of the streets before the revolution provided a glimpse into the city's state of mind. You might have known someone who lived on the corner of Soul and Bitterness, Solitude and Hope, or Light and Avocado. Brin-Jonathan Butler

I like peace and solitude and silence. Carla Bruni

Silence Peace Solitude Like

I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms. Caroline Knapp

Solitude Luxurious Drawn Kind Relief Felt Always Been Pace Rhythms

There's just an incredible amount of loneliness as a mother, all this solitude no one really speaks to. Catherine Reitman

Loneliness Solitude Mother Incredible No-One Just Really Speaks Amount

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means. Chris Ware

Alone Myself Solitude Whatever Nothing Older Those Though More Know Likely Also Periods Occasionally Gotten False Than Nostalgia Wanted Nostalgic Realize Means Found Earlier

Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and have kids. Nothing much happens here. Colm Toibin

Often, marriage was solitude, with company. Deb Caletti

Marriage Solitude Often Company

I grew up in the suburbs of Connecticut - during the school time of year - but I preferred it in New Hampshire. I preferred the culture, the landscape, the relative solitude. I've always loved it. Donald Hall

Time Culture Solitude School Year Relative New Always New Hampshire Hampshire Up Grew Loved Suburbs Preferred Landscape Connecticut

I really do work in solitude. Donna Tartt

Work Solitude Really

I wish I wasn't so in love, wasn't so interested, in the Internet. I wish I spent less time online and more time outside and in my head. Writing requires solitude and deep, deep daydreaming, and the Internet just kills that - its lure is toward the external; it asks you to flit from place to place. Edan Lepucki

Love Time You Solitude Writing Internet Wish Spent Online More Outside Head Toward Daydreaming Just Place Interested Ask Requires Less Less Time Deep Lure External

'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative. Edmund White

Solitude Will Beginning Hundred Hundred Years Rigorous Unprecedented Only Combination Town Know Masterpiece Because Limit Narrative Years Very Endure Form Length Century Episodic Novel

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. Edward Young

Life Death Great Solitude Great Majority Majority Us Desert

Writing is a tribute to solitude. It is choosing introversion over extroversion, lonely hours/days/weeks/years over fun and sociability. Elif Safak

Solitude Writing Lonely Tribute Over Choosing Fun

'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D. program was trying to make me forget. Thank you, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Francine Prose

Me You Solitude School Drop Thank You Everything Hundred Hundred Years Harvard Out Drop-Out Reminded Make Years Thank Forget Trying Graduate Graduate School Gabriel Convinced Novel Program

I used to ski across the vast white expanses of a quiet and lonely mountaintop. In the stillness and solitude... I pondered the mysteries of the universe, the planet, nature and of man. I'm still pondering. Fred Kavli

Nature Man Solitude Stillness Lonely Mysteries White Universe Vast Still Quiet Mountaintop Ski Planet Across Used

I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time. Gabrielle Union

God Time Myself Good Me You Solitude Good Time Single Enjoy Else Everyone Spend Spending Spending Time Someone Had Divorced Since Like Learn How Getting Going Oh Oh My God Ask Now

Breaking apart from someone you love very much can be unbearably painful, but finding yourself again can be a beautiful thing if you do your solitude right. Grace Chatto

Love Beautiful You Yourself Solitude Finding Finding Yourself Someone Beautiful Thing Very Breaking Again Apart Much Your Painful Right Thing

The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever. Hans Zimmer

Day You Conversation Director Solitude Writing Somebody Long Picture Whatever Keyboard All Day Hopefully Wrestle Something More Obscure Studio Head Come Like Ideas Still Sounds Gets Done Place Then Shows Away

My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'. James Patterson

Solitude Complicated Hundred Books Hundred Years Favorite Years Ulysses Very Actually

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. James Russell Lowell

Character Solitude Society Imagination Wholesome

Although I've made notes for things and even written synopses sitting in trains or on park benches, for the complete composition of things I need absolute solitude, preferably an empty house. James Salter

Solitude Made Bench Complete Composition Park Absolute Written House Although Empty Trains Sitting Notes Even Things Need

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