Solitude Quotes

The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

Thomas de Quincey

The best thinking has been done in solitude.

Thomas Alva Edison

Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.

Samuel Johnson

Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character.

James Russell Lowell

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Winston Churchill

Solitude is the playfield of Satan.

Vladimir Nabokov

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.

C.G.Jung

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

Thomas Edison

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

Paul Tillich

To seek solitude like a wild animal. That is my only ambition.

Dalai Lama

I love people. I love my family, my children... but inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Pearl S. Buck

The secret of solitude is that there is no solitude.

Joseph Cook

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Mother Teresa

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

Thomas Wolfe

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

Honore de Balzac

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is

William Jay

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.