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Quotes About Solitude that Resonate

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Quote: The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. by author Epicurus overlaid on photo of butterfly perched on petaled flower
Photo Credit: Ray Hennessy

The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.


Quote: The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. by author Albert Einstein overlaid on photo of photo of outer space
Photo Credit: NASA

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


Quote: 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. by author Henry David Thoreau overlaid on photo of plain background
Photo Credit: Annie Spratt

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.


Quote: Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different. by author Gretchen Rubin overlaid on photo of creative guy at desk
Photo Credit: Thomas Franke

Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.


Quote: I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me. by author Hermann Hesse overlaid on photo of foggy mountains
Photo Credit: Simon Berger

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me.


Quote: Don't fear solitude: If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself. But don't get too attached to it -- it may become an addiction. by author Paulo Coelho overlaid on photo of gray cactus plant on white pot
Photo Credit: Lieselot. Dalle

Don't fear solitude: If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself. But don't get too attached to it -- it may become an addiction.


Quote: I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company. by author Henry Miller overlaid on photo of photo of author Henry Miller with quote

I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.


Quote: How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself. by author Virginia Woolf overlaid on photo of Virginia Woolf quote; white text on black background

How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.


Quote: If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him. by author Criss Jami overlaid on photo of blue and black butterfly on pink and yellow flower
Photo Credit: William Warby

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.


Quote: The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. by author Michel de Montaigne overlaid on photo of mountain dew during sunrise
Photo Credit: Paul Earle

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.


Quote: Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. by author Winston Churchill overlaid on photo of red rope on three branch
Photo Credit: Will O

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


Quote: Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life. by author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe overlaid on photo of white tulip flower in close up photography
Photo Credit: Jocelyn Morales

Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life.


Quote: If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. by author Henry David Thoreau overlaid on photo of boy standing on grass and facing fence during daytime
Photo Credit: Markus Spiske

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.


Quote: You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. by author Franz Kafka overlaid on photo of photo of author Franz Kafka with quote

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.




Quote: Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. by author Edward Gibbon overlaid on photo of brown tree on surrounded by brown grass during golden hour
Photo Credit: Hu Chen

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


Quote: Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first. by author Wayne Cordeiro overlaid on photo of blue and black butterfly on pink and yellow flower
Photo Credit: William Warby

Solitude is a chosen separation for refining your soul. Isolation is what you crave when you neglect the first.


Quote: Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself. by author Alice Hegan Rice overlaid on photo of body of water during daytime
Photo Credit: frank mckenna

Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.


Quote: Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation. by author Wisława Szymborska overlaid on photo of foggy mountains
Photo Credit: Simon Berger

Solitude is very important in my work as a mode of inspiration, but isolation is not good in this respect. I am not writing poetry about isolation.


Quote: On being alone: I think it's a good thing to do; you get to know yourself, and I think that's the most important thing in the whole world. by author Robert Paul Smith overlaid on photo of green leafed plants on forest
Photo Credit: Zoya Konstantinova

On being alone: I think it's a good thing to do; you get to know yourself, and I think that's the most important thing in the whole world.


Quote: Solitude is like punctuation. A paragraph without periods and commas would be exhausting to read. by author Arnie Kozak overlaid on photo of closeup photo of white petaled flowers
Photo Credit: CHUTTERSNAP

Solitude is like punctuation. A paragraph without periods and commas would be exhausting to read.


Quote: Disappear. Then, come back even better. by author Ree Johnson overlaid on photo of macro photography of green bird on tree branch
Photo Credit: Bernal Fallas

Disappear. Then, come back even better.


Quote: Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is. by author William Jay overlaid on photo of Arizona landscape
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Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.


Quote: People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve. by author John Miller overlaid on photo of forest trees photograph
Photo Credit: Logan Easterling

People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.




Quote: We need solitude, because 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. by author Tamim Ansary overlaid on photo of green leaf in close up photography
Photo Credit: Dan Hodgkins

We need solitude, because 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.


Quote: Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity. by author Abraham Cowley overlaid on photo of body of water
Photo Credit: Lopez Robin

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.


Quote: Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery. by author Abraham Joshua Heschel overlaid on photo of person holding magnifying glass near desk globe
Photo Credit: Clay Banks

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.


Quote: He who understands humanity seeks solitude. by author Ali ibn Abi Talib overlaid on photo of car passing by in between trees
Photo Credit: Sergey Pesterev

He who understands humanity seeks solitude.


Quote: Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness. by author Andre Maurois overlaid on photo of green ceramic mug beside book
Photo Credit: Aaron Burden

Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.


Quote: When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest. by author Antonio Porchia overlaid on photo of orange moon during nighttime
Photo Credit: Hugo Kemmel

When the superficial wearies me, it wearies me so much that I need an abyss in order to rest.


Quote: Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim. by author Caroline Knapp overlaid on photo of closeup photo of bird beside purple petal flowers
Photo Credit: Ray Hennessy

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.


Quote: Are there no solitudes out of the cave and the desert; or cannot the heart in the midst of crowds feel frightfully alone? by author Charles Lamb overlaid on photo of person holding blue lighted string
Photo Credit: Emma Pasewald

Are there no solitudes out of the cave and the desert; or cannot the heart in the midst of crowds feel frightfully alone?


Quote: In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History? by author Charles de Gaulle overlaid on photo of brown and white humming bird
Photo Credit: Steve Harvey

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?




Quote: Only the bad man is alone. by author Denis Diderot overlaid on photo of 100 US dollar banknote
Photo Credit: Jp Valery

Only the bad man is alone.


Quote: True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow. by author Edward Hoagland overlaid on photo of yellow flower field near bare trees during daytime
Photo Credit: Ricardo Gomez Angel

True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.


Quote: O sacred solitude! divine retreat!
Choice of the prudent! envy of the great,
By thy pure stream, or in thy waving shade,
We court fair wisdom, that celestial maid. by author Edward Young overlaid on photo of group of camels walking on desert lake at daytime
Photo Credit: Susan Toyofuku

O sacred solitude! divine retreat!
Choice of the prudent! envy of the great,
By thy pure stream, or in thy waving shade,
We court fair wisdom, that celestial maid.


Quote: I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. by author Emily Bronte overlaid on photo of gray scale photo of woman face
Photo Credit: Alexander Krivitskiy

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.


Quote: Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. by author George MacDonald overlaid on photo of black bird flying under white clouds during daytime
Photo Credit: Anand Thakur

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.


Quote: Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms. by author Guy de Maupassant overlaid on photo of birds flying under cloudy sky during daytime
Photo Credit: Isaac Quesada

Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms.


Quote: It is known to many that we need solitude to find ourselves. Perhaps it is not so well known that we need solitude to find our fellows. by author Havelock Ellis overlaid on photo of silhouette of man standing on seashore during sunset
Photo Credit: il vano

It is known to many that we need solitude to find ourselves. Perhaps it is not so well known that we need solitude to find our fellows.


Quote: We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart… and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together… I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude. by author Helen Hayes overlaid on photo of white swan on blue sea during daytime
Photo Credit: Birger Strahl

We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart… and we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together… I think that at least part of the answer lies in solitude.


Quote: The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. by author Henrik Ibsen overlaid on photo of shallow focus photography of brown and black bird
Photo Credit: Victor Sauca

The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.


Quote: Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. by author James Russell Lowell overlaid on photo of photo of gray elephant on grass
Photo Credit: AJ Robbie

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.


Quote: To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude. by author Jeanne Moreau overlaid on photo of woman standing on forest
Photo Credit: Tobias Hort-Giess

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.


Quote: Solitude is dangerous. It's very addictive. It becomes a habit after you realise how peaceful and calm it is. It's like you don't want to deal with people anymore because they drain your energy. by author Jim Carrey overlaid on photo of assorted-colored cactus
Photo Credit: Scott Webb

Solitude is dangerous. It's very addictive. It becomes a habit after you realise how peaceful and calm it is. It's like you don't want to deal with people anymore because they drain your energy.


Quote: The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it. by author John Lubbock overlaid on photo of river between trees under blue sky
Photo Credit: Eutah Mizushima

The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.


Quote: What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee? by author John Milton overlaid on photo of aerial photography of pine trees with mist
Photo Credit: Dorel Gnatiuc

What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?


Quote: If you have a trust in and an expectation of your own solitude, everything that you need to know will be revealed to you. by author John O'Donohue overlaid on photo of blue sky with stars during night time
Photo Credit: George Foster

If you have a trust in and an expectation of your own solitude, everything that you need to know will be revealed to you.


Quote: Solitude vivifies; isolation kills. by author Joseph Roux overlaid on photo of low-angle photography of green leaf tree
Photo Credit: Dave Hoefler

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.


Quote: Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor play to stay. by author Josh Billings overlaid on photo of bare tree on mountain during sunset
Photo Credit: Leah Berman

Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor play to stay.


Quote: Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance. by author Jules Verne overlaid on photo of sunset
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Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.


Quote: I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness. by author Karen Armstrong overlaid on photo of grayscale photography of elephant
Photo Credit: Geran de Klerk

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.


Quote: Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid. by author Karl Kraus overlaid on photo of brown short coated dog lying on floor
Photo Credit: Shreyas Chaudhari

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.


Quote: Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative. by author Laurie Helgoe overlaid on photo of man and woman sitting and kissing on post near the body of water
Photo Credit: Kinga Cichewicz

Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative.


Quote: You don't need to be a monk to find solitude, nor do you need to be a hermit to enjoy it. by author Leo Babauta overlaid on photo of three person looking stars and milky way
Photo Credit: Benjamin Davies

You don't need to be a monk to find solitude, nor do you need to be a hermit to enjoy it.


Quote: Solitude is a lost art in these days of ultra-connectedness. by author Leo Babauta overlaid on photo of white and black bird
Photo Credit: Pete Nuij

Solitude is a lost art in these days of ultra-connectedness.


Quote: Solitude, in these days as much as ever, is an absolute necessity. by author Leo Babauta overlaid on photo of sunset with rainbow
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Solitude, in these days as much as ever, is an absolute necessity.


Quote: Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it. by author Liv Tyler overlaid on photo of raindrops on clear window
Photo Credit: Anant Jain

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.


Quote: Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. by author Lorraine Hansberry overlaid on photo of flowers
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Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.


Quote: You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love. by author Louise Bourgeois overlaid on photo of person holding gray leaf
Photo Credit: Jakob Owens

You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love.


Quote: Solitude is the place of purification. by author Martin Buber overlaid on photo of clear liquid on leaf
Photo Credit: Demi Kwant

Solitude is the place of purification.

Longer Version/[Notes]:

Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.


Quote: Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone. by author Marty Rubin overlaid on photo of toddler hugging siberian husky
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Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.


Quote: Solitude begets whimsies. by author Mary Wortley Montagu overlaid on photo of green trees beside lake during daytime
Photo Credit: Claudia Chiavazza

Solitude begets whimsies.


Quote: People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much. by author Mason Cooley overlaid on photo of green lizard
Photo Credit: Mark Stoop

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.


Quote: A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude. by author Mason Cooley overlaid on photo of yellow flower
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A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.


Quote: Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self. by author May Sarton overlaid on photo of person forming heart with their hands
Photo Credit: Tyler Nix

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.


Quote: Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude. by author Miguel de Unamuno overlaid on photo of person standing on rock beside body of water between green trees
Photo Credit: Steve Carter

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


Quote: People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media. by author Mokokoma Mokhonoana overlaid on photo of selective photography of green leaf plant
Photo Credit: Matthew Smith

People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.


Quote: What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude? by author Nathaniel Hawthorne overlaid on photo of foggy mountains
Photo Credit: Simon Berger

What would a man do, if he were compelled to live always in the sultry heat of society, and could never bathe himself in cool solitude?


Quote: You only grow when you are alone. by author Paul Newman overlaid on photo of low-angle photography of green leaf tree
Photo Credit: Dave Hoefler

You only grow when you are alone.


Quote: Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone. by author Paul Tillich overlaid on photo of silhouette of man standing on rock while looking in sky
Photo Credit: Greg Rakozy

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.


Quote: I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude. by author Percy Bysshe Shelley overlaid on photo of brown, black, and white butterfly on purple petaled flower photo
Photo Credit: Dan Freeman

I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude.


Quote: Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone. by author Philip Gilbert Hamerton overlaid on photo of shallow focus photography of brown parquet flooring
Photo Credit: Tim Mossholder

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.


Quote: Solitude is the mother of anxieties. by author Publilius Syrus overlaid on photo of saguaro
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Solitude is the mother of anxieties.


Quote: He who lives in solitude may make his own laws. by author Publilius Syrus overlaid on photo of toddler hugging siberian husky
Photo Credit: __ drz __

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.


Quote: The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community. by author Robert Fulghum overlaid on photo of red tulip in bloom close up photo
Photo Credit: Stanislav Rozhkov

The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.


Quote: Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions. by author Robert Fulghum overlaid on photo of sunset
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Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.


Quote: There's staggering power in leaving the world and heading out into some solitude for at least an hour every day. by author Robin Sharma overlaid on photo of leafless tree on body of water during daytime
Photo Credit: Jack B

There's staggering power in leaving the world and heading out into some solitude for at least an hour every day.


Quote: Make the time to be alone. Your best ideas live within solitude. by author Robin Sharma overlaid on photo of green fruit in macro lens photography
Photo Credit: Philipp Schneidenbach

Make the time to be alone. Your best ideas live within solitude.


Quote: Fall 
in love
with your solitude. by author Rupi Kaur overlaid on photo of rainbow
Photo Credit: DiscoverQuotes Staff

Fall
in love
with your solitude.


Quote: Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God. by author Saint Francis de Sales overlaid on photo of aerial photography of trees on mountain
Photo Credit: Spencer Watson

Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God.


Quote: One can acquire everything in solitude except character. by author Stendhal overlaid on photo of sunset forest
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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.


Quote: Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place. by author Susan Cain overlaid on photo of clear drinking glass with beer
Photo Credit: Brett Jordan

Solitude is out of fashion. Our companies, our schools and our culture are in thrall to an idea I call the New Groupthink, which holds that creativity and achievement come from an oddly gregarious place.


Quote: I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing -- not just a waiting. by author Susan Sontag overlaid on photo of man and woman sitting on dock
Photo Credit: Krists Luhaers

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing -- not just a waiting.


Quote: Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones. by author Sydney Smith overlaid on photo of butterfly perching on leaves
Photo Credit: Arun Clarke

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.


Quote: We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. by author Tennessee Williams overlaid on photo of man carrying woman beside seashore
Photo Credit: Allen Taylor

We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.


Quote: Spend some time alone. There's so much you don't know about yourself. by author Thibaut Courtois overlaid on photo of elephant play with brown sand
Photo Credit: Alan J. Hendry

Spend some time alone. There's so much you don't know about yourself.


Quote: Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude. by author Thomas Browne overlaid on photo of man kissing woman on forehead
Photo Credit: Victoria Roman

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

Longer Version/[Notes]:

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.


Quote: Solitude gives birth to the original in us. by author Thomas Mann overlaid on photo of photo of pine tree
Photo Credit: Kimon Maritz

Solitude gives birth to the original in us.

Longer Version/[Notes]:

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.


Quote: Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden. by author Thomas Mann overlaid on photo of green water in close up photography
Photo Credit: Pawel Czerwinski

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.


Quote: Loneliness is to be avoided, solitude is to be sought. by author Tom Hanks overlaid on photo of landscape photography of mountains with cloudy skies during golden hour
Photo Credit: Nitish Meena

Loneliness is to be avoided, solitude is to be sought.


Quote: Solitude isn't loneliness. Solitude is when the entire serene universe seems to surround and hold you quietly. by author Victoria Erickson overlaid on photo of leafless tree on body of water during daytime
Photo Credit: Jack B

Solitude isn't loneliness. Solitude is when the entire serene universe seems to surround and hold you quietly.


Quote: If you use that time where you're alone in ways that bring you joy and peace, then that solitude can have a really positive effect on your life. by author Vivek Murthy overlaid on photo of brown and white corgi wearing pink heart shaped hat
Photo Credit: Ivana La

If you use that time where you're alone in ways that bring you joy and peace, then that solitude can have a really positive effect on your life.


Quote: Solitude appeared to me as the only fit state of man. by author Walter Benjamin overlaid on photo of shallow focus photography of snowflake
Photo Credit: Damian McCoig

Solitude appeared to me as the only fit state of man.


Quote: A solitude is the audience-chamber of God. by author Walter Savage Landor overlaid on photo of person holding fan of 100 us dollar bill
Photo Credit: Omid Armin

A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.


Quote: How different a creature is man in society and man in solitude! by author William Godwin overlaid on photo of sunflower
Photo Credit: Domenico Gentile

How different a creature is man in society and man in solitude!


Quote: Give solitude a chance. You've got nothing to lose. And your life to gain back. by author Joshua Becker overlaid on photo of red stain on white wall
Photo Credit: Etienne Girardet

Give solitude a chance. You've got nothing to lose. And your life to gain back.


Quote: Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger. by author Henri J. M. Nouwen overlaid on photo of aerial photography of mountain range covered with snow under white and blue sky at daytime
Photo Credit: Rohit Tandon

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.


Quote: Alone ... The word is life endured and known. It is the stillness where our spirits walk And all but inmost faith is overthrown. by author Siegfried Sassoon overlaid on photo of black and white bird on seashore
Photo Credit: Albert Amor

Alone ... The word is life endured and known. It is the stillness where our spirits walk And all but inmost faith is overthrown.


Quote: Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places. by author A. R. Rahman overlaid on photo of band performing on stage in front of people
Photo Credit: Vishnu R Nair

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.


Quote: Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not. by author Anna Neagle overlaid on photo of flowers
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Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.


Quote: But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning. by author Anna Neagle overlaid on photo of green trees on forest during daytime
Photo Credit: Olena Sergienko

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


Quote: People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger. by author Andrei Tarkovsky overlaid on photo of white and black bird
Photo Credit: Pete Nuij

People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.


Quote: Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss. by author Guru Nanak overlaid on photo of white flowers in brown stem
Photo Credit: Laura Chouette

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.


Quote: Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it. by author Jane Hirshfield overlaid on photo of two dragonflies on green cornate leaf
Photo Credit: mike mcgrath

Wrong solitude vinegars the soul, right solitude oils it.


Quote: Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it. by author Luis Barragan overlaid on photo of golden retriever puppy lying on white textile
Photo Credit: Taylor Sondgeroth

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.


Quote: Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost. by author Kevin Patterson overlaid on photo of grayscale photo of elephant on grass field
Photo Credit: Keyur Nandaniya

Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.


Quote: How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking? by author Mary Doria Russell overlaid on photo of person cooking on seashore
Photo Credit: Liam Simpson

How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?


Quote: My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people. by author Patricia Highsmith overlaid on photo of woman singing on stage
Photo Credit: Alexander Popov

My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.


Quote: Uncontradicting solitude
Supports me on its giant palm;
And like a sea-anemone
Or simple snail, there cautiously
Unfolds, emerges, what I am. by author Philip Larkin overlaid on photo of brown and white corgi wearing pink heart shaped hat
Photo Credit: Ivana La

Uncontradicting solitude
Supports me on its giant palm;
And like a sea-anemone
Or simple snail, there cautiously
Unfolds, emerges, what I am.


Quote: 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. by author Paul Brunton overlaid on photo of birds flying over boat
Photo Credit: Esteban Amaro

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.


Quote: Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you. by author Octave Mirbeau overlaid on photo of selective focus photography of brown hamster
Photo Credit: Ricky Kharawala

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.


Quote: No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society. by author William Gilmore Simms overlaid on photo of yellow flower field near bare trees during daytime
Photo Credit: Ricardo Gomez Angel

No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.


Quote: Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments. by author Stephen Crane overlaid on photo of desert grassland
Photo Credit: DiscoverQuotes Staff

Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.


Quote: The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer. by author Eugene Delacroix overlaid on photo of green and white abstract painting
Photo Credit: Gayatri Malhotra

The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.


Quote: In solitude one finds only what he carries there with him. by author Juan Ramon Jimenez overlaid on photo of sunset forest
Photo Credit: DiscoverQuotes Staff

In solitude one finds only what he carries there with him.


Quote: A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts. by author Axel Munthe overlaid on photo of man in black tank top standing near tree under starry night
Photo Credit: Chinh Le Duc

A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts.


Quote: Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances. by author William Powell overlaid on photo of woman in white and black striped shirt standing on yellow sunflower field during daytime
Photo Credit: Antonino Visalli

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.


Quote: Solitude is the strength of being alone. It's where we become our best company. by author Jay Shetty overlaid on photo of gray elephant
Photo Credit: Eric Heininger

Solitude is the strength of being alone. It's where we become our best company.


Quote: They who do not fear darkness have learned to light their own candle. by author Dodinsky overlaid on photo of brown and black leaf in close up photography
Photo Credit: Omid Armin

They who do not fear darkness have learned to light their own candle.


Quote: Man loves company even if it is only that of a small burning candle. by author Georg Christoph Lichtenberg overlaid on photo of green leaf tree on shore
Photo Credit: Todd Quackenbush

Man loves company even if it is only that of a small burning candle.


Quote: Although the wish for solitude can be a denial of dependence, a capacity for solitude may be its fullest acknowledgment. by author Adam Phillips overlaid on photo of red textile in close up photography
Photo Credit: engin akyurt

Although the wish for solitude can be a denial of dependence, a capacity for solitude may be its fullest acknowledgment.


Quote: Solitude is the soul's holiday. by author Katrina Kenison overlaid on photo of black and silver knife on gray wooden table
Photo Credit: Anis Rahman

Solitude is the soul's holiday.


Quote: We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone. by author Sara Maitland overlaid on photo of blue rose with water droplet
Photo Credit: Abhijeet

We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone.


Quote: Solitude helps you reflect. by author Ruskin Bond overlaid on photo of green mountains beside lake under blue sky during daytime
Photo Credit: Alexey Murzin

Solitude helps you reflect.


Quote: Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment. by author Richard J. Foster overlaid on photo of person holding yellow petaled flower
Photo Credit: Kawin Harasai

Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.


Quote: Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else. by author Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire overlaid on photo of photo of pine tree
Photo Credit: Kimon Maritz

Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else.


Quote: If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally supplied by the flattery of one's own breast. by author William Benton Clulow overlaid on photo of purple and black light illustration
Photo Credit: Mikael Frivold

If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally supplied by the flattery of one's own breast.


Quote: Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt
In solitude, where we are least alone. by author Lord Byron overlaid on photo of woman holding the shoulder of man
Photo Credit: Heather Mount

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt
In solitude, where we are least alone.


Quote: Sometimes the only kind of innovation comes when you have some solitude; when you step away. by author Anand Mahindra overlaid on photo of Arizona landscape
Photo Credit: DiscoverQuotes Staff

Sometimes the only kind of innovation comes when you have some solitude; when you step away.


Frightening things happen in solitude.


Quote: The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic's terrible. by author Jeffery Taylor overlaid on photo of bare tree on mountain during sunset
Photo Credit: Leah Berman

The beaten path is the safest, but the traffic's terrible.


Quote: The value of solitude -- one of it's values -- is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within. by author May Sarton overlaid on photo of time lapse photography body of water
Photo Credit: JanFillem

The value of solitude -- one of it's values -- is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within.


Quote: Sail away, I sail away, I sail nowhere, nowhere, nowhere
Hear her laugh through the air
Down from the past into my lair
I want you in solitude. by author Three Fish overlaid on photo of bird on pier
Photo Credit: DiscoverQuotes Staff

Sail away, I sail away, I sail nowhere, nowhere, nowhere
Hear her laugh through the air
Down from the past into my lair
I want you in solitude.


Quote: If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company. by author Jean-Paul Sartre overlaid on photo of assorted books on wooden table
Photo Credit: Sharon McCutcheon

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.


Quote: And Wisdom's self
Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude,
Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation,
She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings,
That in the various bustle of resort
Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired. by author John Milton overlaid on photo of photo of author John Milton with quote

And Wisdom's self
Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude,
Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation,
She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings,
That in the various bustle of resort
Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impaired.


Quote: Solitude holds a cup sparkling with bliss in her right hand, a raging dagger in her left; to the blest she offers her goblet, but stretches toward the wretch the ruthless steel! by author Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock overlaid on photo of silhouette of flower during sunset
Photo Credit: Adelin Grigorescu

Solitude holds a cup sparkling with bliss in her right hand, a raging dagger in her left; to the blest she offers her goblet, but stretches toward the wretch the ruthless steel!


Quote: How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude! by author Jean de la Bruyere overlaid on photo of black portable vinyl records
Photo Credit: Mink Mingle

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!


Quote: The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude. by author Shan Sa overlaid on photo of black textile on white textile
Photo Credit: Cat Han

The moon in all her immaculate purity hung in the sky, laughing at this world of dust. She congratulated me for my carefully considered maneuvers and invited me to share in her eternal solitude.


Quote: What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self? by author Henrik Ibsen overlaid on photo of silhouette of elephant on brown sand during sunset
Photo Credit: Jordan Heinrichs

What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?


Quote: I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me. by author Rudyard Kipling overlaid on photo of green leaf tree on shore
Photo Credit: Todd Quackenbush

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.




Quote: But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths. by author Rainer Maria Rilke overlaid on photo of yellow labrador retriever puppy lying on floor
Photo Credit: Himanshu Choudhary

But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.


Quote: I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference. by author Greta Garbo overlaid on photo of brown french bulldog wearing blue and white polka dot shirt
Photo Credit: Karsten Winegeart

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said 'I want to be let alone!' There is all the difference.


Quote: There is a wilderness we walk alone
However well-companioned. by author Stephen Vincent Benét overlaid on photo of green fruit in macro lens photography
Photo Credit: Philipp Schneidenbach

There is a wilderness we walk alone
However well-companioned.


Quote: There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more. by author Lord Byron overlaid on photo of blue parrot standing on brown tree branch
Photo Credit: Dominik Lange

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more.


Quote: In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention. by author Simone Weil overlaid on photo of photo of white and brown bricked wall during daytime
Photo Credit: Marl Clevenger

In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention.


Quote: To feel themselves in the presence of true greatness many find it necessary only to be alone. by author Thomas Lansing Masson overlaid on photo of silhouette photography of trees and sky
Photo Credit: Aperture Vintage

To feel themselves in the presence of true greatness many find it necessary only to be alone.




Quote: Solitude is the playfield of Satan. by author Vladimir Nabokov overlaid on photo of red rope on three branch
Photo Credit: Will O

Solitude is the playfield of Satan.


Quote: A man can be himself only so long as he is alone. by author Arthur Schopenhauer overlaid on photo of forest near mountain alps
Photo Credit: Milada Vigerova

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

Longer Version/[Notes]:

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.


Quote: Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal. by author Ralph Waldo Emerson overlaid on photo of bird at pier
Photo Credit: DiscoverQuotes Staff

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.


Quote: Solitude vivifies, isolation kills. by author Philibert Joseph Roux overlaid on photo of shallow focus photography of fountain pen
Photo Credit: John Jennings

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.




In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details around us.


Quote: We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. by author C. S. Lewis overlaid on photo of photo of author C. S. Lewis with quote

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.


Quote: Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe. by author Laozi (Lao-Tzu) overlaid on photo of yellow green leaf
Photo Credit: Annie Spratt

Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.


Quote: The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude. by author Gabriel Garcia Marquez overlaid on photo of two women walking on bridge during daytime
Photo Credit: Julia Caesar

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.


Quote: Solitude was my only consolation -- deep, dark, deathlike solitude. by author Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley overlaid on photo of colored pencil lined up on top of white surface
Photo Credit: Jess Bailey

Solitude was my only consolation -- deep, dark, deathlike solitude.


Quote: One of the best gifts we can give ourselves is time alone with God. by author Joyce Meyer overlaid on photo of liquor pouring on clear shot glass
Photo Credit: Adam Jaime

One of the best gifts we can give ourselves is time alone with God.


Quote: You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners. by author Robert Brault overlaid on photo of photo of man walking of foot bridge
Photo Credit: Liam Simpson

You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room. You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners.


Quote: Some of us are born to a solitary life. by author Philippa Gregory overlaid on photo of brown tabby kitten lying on white textile
Photo Credit: Tuqa Nabi

Some of us are born to a solitary life.


Quote: In solitude I find my answers. by author Kristen Butler overlaid on photo of flowers
Photo Credit: DiscoverQuotes Staff

In solitude I find my answers.


Quote: Solitude sometimes is best society. by author John Milton overlaid on photo of person wearing suit reading business newspaper
Photo Credit: Adeolu Eletu

Solitude sometimes is best society.


Quote: Solitude is a kind of freedom. by author Umberto Eco overlaid on photo of grassland
Photo Credit: DiscoverQuotes Staff

Solitude is a kind of freedom.


Quote: Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. by author Ernest Hemingway overlaid on photo of two hands
Photo Credit: Toa Heftiba

Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.


Quote: My solitude doesn't depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company. by author Friedrich Nietzsche overlaid on photo of person holding sunflower bouquet during daytime
Photo Credit: Kate Hliznitsova

My solitude doesn't depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.


Quote: Society is no comfort, to one not sociable. by author William Shakespeare overlaid on photo of white petaled flower bloom during daytime
Photo Credit: Caleb Woods

Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.


Quote: Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. by author Deepak Chopra overlaid on photo of photo of gray elephant on grass
Photo Credit: AJ Robbie

Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it.


Quote: In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone. by author Ayn Rand overlaid on photo of blue mountains at daytime
Photo Credit: Antoine Rault

In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.


Quote: The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. by author Nikola Tesla overlaid on photo of man raising arms between greenfield
Photo Credit: Hanny Naibaho

The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude.

Longer Version/[Notes]:

The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone that is the secret of invention: be alone, that is when ideas are born.


Quote: In proportion as a person simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude. by author Henry David Thoreau overlaid on photo of bunch of tulips flower on wooden surface
Photo Credit: Annie Spratt

In proportion as a person simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude.


Quote: A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live. by author Bertrand Russell overlaid on photo of closeup photo of bird beside purple petal flowers
Photo Credit: Ray Hennessy

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.


Quote: Solitude is un-American. by author Erica Jong overlaid on photo of adult short-coated red akita inu dog on field
Photo Credit: Jaycee Xie

Solitude is un-American.


Quote: I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me. by author Charles Bukowski overlaid on photo of photo of author Charles Bukowski with quote

I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.


Quote: I am never less alone than when alone. by author Cicero overlaid on photo of macro photography of green bird on tree branch
Photo Credit: Bernal Fallas

I am never less alone than when alone.


Quote: Once you know how to take care of yourself, company becomes an option. by author Keenu Reeves overlaid on photo of white pampas grasses near body of water at daytime
Photo Credit: Timothy Meinberg

Once you know how to take care of yourself, company becomes an option.


Quote: Loneliness is one thing, solitude another. by author Friedrich Nietzsche overlaid on photo of two women sitting on wooden dock over body of water
Photo Credit: KaLisa Veer

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.


Quote: Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness. by author Criss Jami overlaid on photo of black fishes
Photo Credit: Liset Verhaar

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.


Quote: If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them. by author Jodi Picoult overlaid on photo of birds flying under cloudy sky during daytime
Photo Credit: Isaac Quesada

If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.


Quote: The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude. by author Voltaire overlaid on photo of sunset over hill
Photo Credit: DiscoverQuotes Staff

The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.


Quote: Without great solitude no serious work is possible. by author Pablo Picasso overlaid on photo of four men sitting beside table
Photo Credit: Ashkan Forouzani

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.


Quote: Introverts live in two worlds: We visit the world of people, but solitude and the inner world will always be our home. by author Jenn Granneman overlaid on photo of aerial view of trees
Photo Credit: Markus Spiske

Introverts live in two worlds: We visit the world of people, but solitude and the inner world will always be our home.


Quote: Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. by author Nikola Tesla overlaid on photo of sunflower field during daytime
Photo Credit: meriç tuna

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.


Quote: I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. by author Henry David Thoreau overlaid on photo of green tree under blue sky during night time
Photo Credit: Tasos Mansour

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Longer Version/[Notes]:

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.


Quote: We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest. by author Philip Gilbert Hamerton overlaid on photo of grayscale photography of woman hugging another woman
Photo Credit: Anastasia Vityukova

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.


Quote: In solitude, where we are least alone. by author Lord Byron overlaid on photo of autumn leaves on body of water
Photo Credit: Hannah Domsic

In solitude, where we are least alone.


Quote: You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. by author Wayne W. Dyer overlaid on photo of man with LED headlight looking upward
Photo Credit: Josh Gordon

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.


Quote: The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil. by author Thomas Edison overlaid on photo of man and woman hugging each other
Photo Credit: Candice Picard

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


Quote: Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are. by author Robert Cecil overlaid on photo of person surfing on blue sea during daytime
Photo Credit: Carles Rabada

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.


Quote: Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. by author Robert Browning overlaid on photo of multicolored hand paint
Photo Credit: Sharon McCutcheon

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.


Quote: I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone. by author Rainer Maria Rilke overlaid on photo of black porsche 911 on road during daytime
Photo Credit: Lorenzo Gerosa

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.


Quote: The thoughtful soul to solitude retires. by author Omar Khayyam overlaid on photo of flowers
Photo Credit: DiscoverQuotes Staff

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.


Quote: Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. by author Octavio Paz overlaid on photo of shallow focus photography of orange flower
Photo Credit: Rafael Zamora

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

Longer Version/[Notes]:

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks out another.


Quote: Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It 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. by author Paul Tillich overlaid on photo of calm ocean
Photo Credit: Ryan Stone

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It 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.


Quote: Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls. by author Naomi Judd overlaid on photo of silhouette of elephant on brown sand during sunset
Photo Credit: Jordan Heinrichs

Solitude is creativity's best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.


Quote: There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. by author Maggie Smith overlaid on photo of green leaf tree near mountain covered by snow at daytime
Photo Credit: Sergey Pesterev

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.


Quote: In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. by author Laurence Sterne overlaid on photo of road between yellow leaf trees at daytime
Photo Credit: quentin

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.


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