Quotes About Solitude

Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.

Every unhappy person thinks her unhappiness is unique.

Solitude was no reason for sloppiness

Far from the madding crowd is a mistake on a honeymoon.... Solitude! Wherever you are, if you're on a honeymoon, you'll get quite as much solitude as is good for you every twenty-four hours. Constant change and distraction -- that's what wants arranging for. Solitude will arrange itself.

Never have I though so much, ever have I realized my own existence so much, been so much alive, been so much myself if may so say, as in those journeys which I have made alone and afoot. Walking has something in it which animates and heightens my ideas: I can scarcely think when I stay in one place; my body must be set a-going if my mind is to work.

Frog walked into the house. It was dark. All the shutters were closed. 'Toad, where are you?' called Frog. 'Go away,' said the voice from a corner of the room.

Never follow the crowd, go where it's empty

Don't go where it's crowded. Go where it's empty. Even though it's harder to get there, that's where you belong and where there's less competition.

Kijk,' zegt hij, 'kijk hoe mooi het hier is. Nergens een mens te bespeuren. Alleen maar zand. Dat is mooi. Een wereld zonder mensen, dat is schoonheid. Duisternis is de mens, niets dan dat, het epicentrum van duisternis, en het enige licht dat van hem komt, is het licht van het beest.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

At work, successful people are lonely in a crowd.

As Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in his joyful essay "Friendship," I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new. Shall I not call God the Beautiful, who daily showeth himself so to me in his gifts? I chide society, I embrace solitude, and yet I am not so ungrateful as not to see the wise, the lovely, and the noble-minded, as from time to time they pass my gate. Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine—a possession for all time. An

Writers are like eremites or anchorites - natural-born eremites or anchorites - who seem puzzled as to why they went up the pole or into the cave in the first place.

I'm antisocial - there's no question about it.

I like to be quiet and play guitar and just chill.

I like peace and quiet. It's like I'm a loner.

I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

I just want to live in peace and quiet.

My office. It's drab and boring but quiet.

I want my office to be quiet. The loudest thing in the room - by far - should be the occasional purring of the cat.

I like it when it's nice and quiet. I'm not a big city person.

I want a bit of peace and quiet in my life after burning the candle at both ends.

When I write I find a quiet place.