Quotes About Solitude

Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.

Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.

There is a French proverb: To live happy, live hidden. Where can Brigitte Bardot hide?

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful.

To fall in love with yourself is the first secret of happiness. Then if you're not a good mixer you can always fall back on your own company.

Everyone is alone and yet nobody can do without other people, not just because they are useful... but also when it comes to happiness.

Even in Siberia there is happiness.

That's how it is sometimes when we plunge into the depths of our lives. No one can accompany us, not even those who would give up their hearts for our happiness.

I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change.

Happiness is not to be sought in solitude or in busy centers. It is in the Self.

Silence is the essential condition of happiness.

Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.

Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude.

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Happiness must be shared. Selfishness it its enemy; to make another happy is to be happy one's self. It is quiet, most easily won in moments of solitude and reflection. It comes from within.

Always remember that you were once alone, and the crowd you see in your life today are just as unecessary as when you were alone.

She was happy, yes, in her own way, as best as she knew.But there's a difference between a single candle in darkness and a sunrise.

An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy.

In the dark, there is silence but in the light there is warmth.

Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.

Your path might be a lonely one... but, you are NOT alone!

The truest smiles are those which spread across our faces when no one's watching us.

Sometimes I get so sad that it jest sounds good.

If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.