Quotes About Solitude

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

It is necessary...for a man to go away by himself...to sit on a rock...and ask, 'Who am I, where have I been, and where am I going?'

I stand in the shower aimlessly for ages just because its warm.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!

Your life is an island separated from all other islands and continents. Regardless of how many boats you send to other shores or how many ships arrive upon your shores, you yourself are an island separated by its own pains, secluded in its happiness.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition . . .

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, 'There is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.'

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Sometimes you have got to be able to listen to yourself and be okay with no one else understanding.

If your pride is bigger than your heart and your ego is bigger than your head, grow up or you will be alone for life!

The most beautiful music in the world is your own heartbeat, it assures you that you will survive even when the whole world leaves you alone.

Remember, life is not defined by any single purpose. So as fundamental as it sounds, it's important to be happy. Because those who do not realize that, are the ones who go to sleep alone at night.

Sometimes we need to step outside to be alone to think about where we are and where we're heading in life. To think about the choices we've made and the decisions we still need to make.

Sometimes we feel alone because we thought people gave us happiness. We forget that God is always there. People leave but God is always beside us. He is waiting to call you. That's why we need to pray.

If you feel like you're alone, just pray and God will remind you He's always there.

Forgive me for not being there, my mind has found a place called else where.

I thank God everyday, for being there for me when everyone else isn't.

Sometimes we have to disappear, to find out who is willing to find us.

Sometimes, I'm just tired of being alone.

I am not the kind of girl that thinks a guy is the answer to everything...I'm just tired of being alone.