50 Solitude Quotes
- “Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.” Thomas Mann
- “Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.” Winston Churchill
- “To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.” Jeanne Moreau
- “In solitude is healing. Speak to your soul. Listen to your heart. Sometimes in the absence of noise, we find the answers.” Dodinsky
- “Seclusion is the price of greatness.” Paramahansa Yogananda
- “The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulate the creative mind.” Albert Einstein
- “When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.” William Wordsworth
- “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
- “Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.” Miguel de Unamuno
- “In solitude, we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.” Virginia Woolf
- “Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.” Criss Jami
- “Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.” Frank Miller
- “Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.” May Sarton
- “Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.” Pablo Picasso
- “Solitude was my only consolation – deep, dark, deathlike solitude.” Mary Shelley
- “When we’re alone, we’re free from obligations, we don’t need to put on a show, and we can hear our own thoughts.” Tamim Ansary
- “Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.” James Russell Lowell
- “Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.” Joseph Roux
- “I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.” Henry David Thoreau
- “In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.” Albert Camus
- “I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.” Charlotte Brontë
- “One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “There is a fellowship quieter even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.” Robert Louis Stevenson
- “The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.” Thomas A. Edison
- “Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.” Edward Gibbon
- “It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.” Arthur Schopenhauer
- “I am a minimalist. I like saying the most with the least.” Bob Newhart
- “Solitude is the soul’s holiday.” Katrina Kenison
- “Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.” Arthur Schopenhauer
- “To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.” Victor Hugo
- “Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.” Honoré de Balzac
- “It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.” Rumi
- “In solitude, the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.” Laurence Sterne
- “Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.” Albert Einstein
- “Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.” Deepak Chopra
- “I’m simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude.” Bohumil Hrabal
- “Quiet people have the loudest minds.” Stephen Hawking
- “Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.” Mike Norton
- “The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.” Voltaire
- “Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.” Gautama Buddha
- “The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.” Aldous Huxley
- “Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.” Marcus Aurelius
- “Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.” R. Rahman
- “Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your own presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.” Alice Koller
- “Talent is nurtured in solitude … A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.” Johann Wolfgang Von Göethe
- “Solitude sometimes is the best society.” John Milton
- “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
- “Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.” Jules Verne
- “In stillness lives wisdom. In quiet, you’ll find peace. In solitude, you’ll remember yourself.” Robin Sharma
- “By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear.” George Herbert