Solitude Quotes

Some Inspiring Solitude Quotes:

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
~ Henry David Thoreau

O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings
~John Keats

In solitude, where we are least alone.
~ Lord Byron

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
~Francis Bacon

But the delights of solitude don’t only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.
~Anna Neagle

I owe my solitude to other people.
~ Alan Watts

Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the true parent of genius. In all ages solitude has been called for–has been flown to.
~ Isaac D’Israeli

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
~ Albert Einstein

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
~ Francis Bacon

One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict — girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.
~Lord Percival

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
~ Octavio Paz

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
~ Ellen Burstyn

Solitude Quotes

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

The secret of solitude is that there is no solitude.
~ Joseph Cook

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
~Francis Bacon

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.
~Frank Muir

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
~ Albert Einstein

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
~Maya Angelou

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
~ Robert Cecil

Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone.
~ C. S. Lewis

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
~Sir Winston Churchill

This is to be along; this, this is solitude!
~ Lord Byron

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.
~Eric Hoffer

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid
~Karl Kraus

Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.
~Johann Wolfgang

We’re all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life!
~Tennessee Williams

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
~Samuel Johnson

For solitude sometimes is best society, And short retirement urges sweet return.
~John Milton

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
~Miguel de Unamuno

If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right.
~Jules Renard

Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.
~Honoré de Balzac

An artist is always alone — if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
~ Henry Miller

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

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
~Edward Young

I owe my solitude to other people.
~Alan Watts

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