Quotes About Solitude

The house protects the dreamer, the house allows one to dream in peace

Years ago the public used to hound me but now I can go shopping in peace

The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.

A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

In nature, a child finds freedom, fantasy, and privacy: a place distant from the adult world, a separate peace.

A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.

He makes a solitude, and calls it - peace!

...he came to the conclusion that you cannot depend on people, and that you can live in peace only if you keep them at arm's length.

To the artist, the forest is an asylum of peace and dancing shadows.

Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.

In this silent, serene wilderness the weary can gain a heart-bath in perfect peace.

Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.

Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.

Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually producing the stuff worth reading.

The world is quiet here.

The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

What each one of us fundamentally needs is that inner peace which is to be discovered solely within ourselves, which no-one else can give, which the world with all its resources, can never supply.

The true peace of God begins at any spot a thousand miles from the nearest land.

Take a moment every day to find peace. Pull over to the side of the road, turn off the radio, and find peace.

Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here.

Remember what peace there may be in silence.

There is peace in dungeons, but is that enough to make dungeons desirable?

For people who like peace and quiet: a phoneless cord.