Solitude Quotes - Page 13

• An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

  Henry Miller

  Music, Lonely, Loneliness

  Henry Miller (1977). “Tropic of Cancer”

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• She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

  Edith Wharton

  Joy, Taste, Company

  Edith Wharton (2015). “The House of Mirth”, p.60, Xist Publishing

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• Finding solitude in the concrete jungle is powerful and peaceful.

  Michael Dolan

  Powerful, Concrete Jungle, Peaceful

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• In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Passion, Heart

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• Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.

  Robert Frost

  Left

  Robert Frost (1963). “Selected poems”

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• Solitude gives you the ideas and the motivation to make you want to collaborate.

  Nitin Sawhney

  Motivation, Ideas, Giving

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• I frequently lock myself in my studio. I do not often see the people I love, and in the end I shall suffer for it... painting is one's private life.

  Edgar Degas

  People, Suffering, Locks

  Edgar Degas (1963). “Drawings”

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• If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Character, Mind Love, Noble

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• Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Solitary, Ifs

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• The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

  Omar Khayyam

  Single, Thoughtful, Soul

  Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald, Christopher Decker (1997). “Edward FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Critical Edition”, p.122, University of Virginia Press

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• Solitude is the mother of anxieties.

  Publilius Syrus

  Mother, Anxiety

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 222, 1856.

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• Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Meditation, Delight

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• 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.

  Simone Weil

  Stars, Lying, Moon

  Simone Weil (2002). “Gravity and Grace”, p.121, Psychology Press

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• I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Friendship, Home, Two

  Walden ch. 6 (1854)

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• I treasure solitude. One doesn't have to have human contact.

  Doris Lessing

  Treasure, Contact, Humans

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

  Octavio Paz

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Men

  The Labyrinth of Solitude ch. 9 (1950) (translation by Lysander Kemp)

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• Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things.

  Thomas Cole

  Mind, Scene, Contemplation

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• There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Perfect, Fellowship, Quiet

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2015). “Collected Memoirs, Travel Sketches and Island Literature of Robert Louis Stevenson: Autobiographical Writings and Essays by the prolific Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, author of Treasure Island, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Kidnapped & Catriona”, p.129, e-artnow

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• God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

  Paul Valery

  Women, Loneliness, Religion

  Tel Quel 1 "Moralites" (1941)

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

  Tennessee Williams

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Orpheus Descending act 2, sc. 1 (1958)

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• Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Thomas Wolfe (2016). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.511, Thomas Wolfe

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• 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

  Business, Tired, Self

  William Wordsworth (1970). “The Prelude: Or, Growth of a Poet's Mind (text of 1805)”, p.24, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• There is always something left to love.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Love, Romantic, I Hate You

  "Gabriel García Márquez: 'He made no claim for his divinity'" by Mona Simpson, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2014.

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• A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• Only in the winter, in the country, can you have longer quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself.

  Ruth Stout

  Country, Winter, Snow

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