Quotes About Solitude

Silence and solitude are confrontational. They plunge us instantly into the truth.

The solitary monk who shook the world From pagan slumber, when the gospel trump Thunder' d its challenge from his dauntless lips In peals of truth.

A corner is important. It provides privacy and an anchor and lets you exist independently of the room.

The cold passion for truth hunts in no pack.

To say nothing is out here is incorrect; to say the desert is stingy with everything except space and light, stone and earth is closer to the truth.

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear.

Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.

The truth is you don't like the theater except the times when you're in a room by yourself putting the play on paper.

...but the truth is that I don't feel like I can carry anyone but myself right now. The streets are empty. I am empty. Or, no--I am full of pain. It's my life that's empty.

You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time.

If you are after truth, let your shadow be the only shadow around you! Stay away from the crowds!

Solitude is the natural dwelling place of truth…It is there you will wrestle. It is there you will be tested by fire and by darkness.

If a man, sitting all alone, cannot dream strange things, and make them look like truth, he need never try to write romances.

I'm perceived to be this solitary character, but nothing could be further from the truth.

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

Battles for truth are fought all alone but at the end its a victory for many.

Single life is the best life until you get hit by lonely nights.

I've been called a recluse. There's definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.

People are always relying on another, i always feel more comfortable alone. Art knows my pain, its not just a desire to paint, a hobby to distract me from living my truth, it is my truth.

Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!... except of course when they are alone.

Speak truth even if you be aloneFor truth hath no friend but itselfKhoiSan Book of Wisdom

Not only were the books lost and the thoughts in the books, but what was to him, perhaps, the most searching loss of all, the hours of rumination which lifted him above himself and bore him upon their muffled and enormous wings. Not a day passed but he was reminded of some single volume, or of a series of works, whose very positions on the walls was so clearly indented in his mind.

Herbert Sondheim had written a note, packed up his clothes, and walked out.