Solitude Quotes - Page 11

• Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Life, Sad, Depressing

  Tales of aWayside Inn pt. 3 "The Theologian's Tale: Elizabeth" pt. 4 (1874)

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• Apply yourself to solitude. One who is given to solitude knows things as they really are.

  Gautama Buddha

  Given, Knows

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• Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Recovery, Sleep, Opportunity

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.28

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• 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.

  Nikola Tesla

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Creativity

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• In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude.

  Robert Breault

  Soulmate, Soulmates Best Friends, Company

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• I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Good Morning, Reality, House

  "Walden, Or, Life in the Woods".

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

  Nikola Tesla

  Inspirational, Being Alone, Ideas

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• Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

  Walter Savage Landor

  God, Wise, Wisdom

  Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen: Richard I and the Abbot of Boxley. The Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney. King Henry IV and Sir Arnold Savage. Southey and Porson. Oliver Cromwel and Walter Noble. Aeschines and Phocion. Queen Elizabeth and Cecil. King James I and Isaac Casaubon. Marchese Pallavicini and Walter Landor. General Kleber and some French officers. Bonaparte and the president of the senate. Bishop Burnet and Humphrey Hardcastle. Peter Leopold and the President Du”, p.16

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• He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

  Publilius Syrus

  Single, Law, May

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• All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Men, World, Little Manhattan

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

  Antonio Porchia

  Order, Needs, Superficial

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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

  Thomas A. Edison

  Thinking, Innovation, Independence

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• I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Monday, Morning, Being Alone

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• I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

  Lord Byron

  Hilarious, Being Alone, Appetite For Life

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• You only grow when you are alone.

  Paul Newman

  Wisdom, Being Alone, Feeling Lonely

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• Solitude is essentially the discovery and acceptance of our uniqueness.

  Laurence Freeman

  Acceptance, Discovery, Uniqueness

  Laurence Freeman (1996). “Web of silence: letters to meditators”

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• Solitude is rich but seldom hilarious.

  Stephanie Mills

  Rich

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.123, Island Press

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• It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Being Alone, Reason, Difficult

  "Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter Seven (May 14, 1904), 1929.

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

  Honore de Balzac

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

  Karl Kraus

  Loneliness, Needs, Tables

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

  Hannah Arendt

  Loneliness, Two, Splits

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• The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Love, Lonely, Loneliness

  "To My Daughters, With Love (To You on Your First Birthday)". Book by Pearl S. Buck, 1967.

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• There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude. If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.

  Bill Vaughan

  Distance, Convincing Evidence, Luxury

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• Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!

  Alexander Pope

  Nurse

  Alexander Pope (1806). “The works of Alexander Pope. Containing the principal notes of drs. Warburton and Warton [&c.]. To which are added, some original letters, with additional observations, and memoirs, by W.L. Bowles”, p.295

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• There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.

  Jules Renard

  World, Moments

  Jules Renard (1964). “The journal of Jules Renard”

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