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Quotes About Solitude

I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face.
~ Thomas Merton
…my Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have.
~ A. S. Byatt
leave me in peace, let me sleep one night at least without my pillow being wet with tears, my eyes burning and my head throbbing
~ Anne Frank
It seems to be that loneliness is a small price to pay for peace and quiet.
~ Bart Yates
Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.
~ Alanis Morissette
What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace.
~ William Saroyan
Soul Mountain, the story of one man's quest for inner peace and freedom.
~ Gao Xingjian
I pray you bear me henceforth from the noise and rumour of the field, where I may think the remnant of my thoughts in peace, and part of this body and my soul with contemplation and devout desires.
~ William Shakespeare
But I need solitude--which is to say, recovery, return to myself, the breath of a free, light, playful air.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Set a daily solitude time for reflection and rethinking.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
My mind is a peaceful poet to itself.
~ Kamini Arichandran
Wherever people go to find peace - that's what I find in the ocean.
~ Willow Aster, True Love Story
Joy – in the fall, winter, and always in the mountains where people are few, wildlife is abundant and there is peace in the quiet.
~ Donna Lynn Hope
I could not escape a feeling that this was my own funeral, and you do not cry in that case.
~ John Knowles
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day. And I have asked to be where no storms come.
~ Joan Didion
Still, Luce held firm to the belief that quiet and solitude were good for you, offering peace, or at least hope for peace.
~ Charles Frazier, Nightwoods
Maybe you have been looking for peace for no one but yourself.
~ Building 429
He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.
~ Garrett Leigh, Only Love
Inner peace is a quiet evening moonlight walk in the soft falling snow of our minds
~ Wes Adamson
Sitting back in the evening, stargazing and stroking your dog, is an infallible remedy.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.
~ Giacomo Leopardi
Stood alone on a mountain top, starin' out at the Great Divide. I could go east, I could go west, it was all up to me to decide. Just then I saw a young hawk flyin' and my soul began to rise.
~ Bob Seger
There's no shame in enjoying the quiet life.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
Just me and my nuts, that's all I got in this world.
~ Ludacris