Quotes About Solitude

Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life.

Though I lost you years ago, I dreamed you were here. That dream gave me the inspirational feeling that I could make it one more day.

I swear to God, if you saw me when I am by myself in the woods, I'm a lunatic. I sing, I dance.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

I'll never stop wandering. And when the time comes to die, I'll find the wildest, loneliest, most desolate spot there is.

Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.

Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

You're only lonely if you don't like the person you are alone with.

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.

One day in the country Is worth a month in town

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing.

In the end you have only you.

It's just like magic. When you live by yourself, all your annoying habits are gone!.

Everyone has left me except my muse, that good nurse. She stays in my hand, a mild white mouse.

When you are alone you are all your own.

Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.