Solitude Quotes

Solitude is the place of purification.

Martin Buber

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills

Joseph Roux

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

Miguel de Unamuno

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

Paul Brunton

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god

Francis Bacon, Sr

Solitude is often the best society

Proverb

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

Albert Einstein

From the solitude of the wood, Man has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.

Loren Eiseley

But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.

Anna Neagle

A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Walter Savage Landor

I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself

Peter Hoeg

Goodbye, goodbye, I hate the word. Solitude has long since turned brown and withered, sitting bitter in my mouth and heavy in my veins.

R.M. Grenon

L.A. is the ultimate anonymous city: except when you choose not to be, you are generally alone. New Yorkers are never alone. It's surprising that street crime happens here at all, since muggings and rapes require solitude for the proper intimacy between criminal and victim, and in New York you have to go looking for a genuinely deserted block of street. Furthermore, whereas at night it can get dark in some parts of L.A., New Yorkers are never without light, at least the artificial kind.

David Klinghoffer

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Kathleen Norris

Solitude is a kind of freedom.

Umberto Eco
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