Quotes About Solitude

Dwell on your own sacred thoughts.

In solitude, you will find the soul.

Nothing is wrong if you walk alone .

It is in the quiet that you gain perspective when you have to deal with the loud.

Thinking in loneliness and speaking in public are the two things leaders are masters at.

At the end of the life you have to live your day alone and vice-versa.

Heroes don't have friends, they have fans.

People say how do you live alone? My response-I have time for myself not for loneliness...

May the Lord comfort the lonely and suffering souls.

There is a lot of pain in being lonely, but a lot of beauty in being alone.

The saddest day hath gleams of light The darkest wave hath bright foam beneath it The twinkles o'er the cloudiest night Some solitary star to cheer it.

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.

I always loved running.... It was something you could do by yourself and under your own power.

Standing on a street corner waiting for no one is power.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.

I am still inside here, with my own thoughts, and my own worries, and my own obsessions, and my own rage.

Reading is the best way I know to learn how to examine your life. By comparing what you've done to what others have done, and your thoughts and theories and feelings to those of others, you learn about yourself and the world around you. Perhaps that is why reading is one of the few things you do alone that can make you feel less alone. It is a solitary activity that connects you to others.

But missing people and being lonely, she pointed out, are two separate things.

It was like before I was in a noisy church in a big city. Now it's like I'm in a beautiful monastery that no human has visited for a thousand years.

For the rest, silence or good music, not much food, a lot of solitude, walks on the Heath, the time to think while others... well, often fall apart. Not so bad, not so bad at all. Being queer and self-sufficient is the best present at this season.

Locked inside the black vault of our skulls, stuck forever in the solitude of our own hallucinated universe, story is a portal, a hallucination within the hallucination, the closest we'll ever really come to escape.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.