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Solitude Quotes

How would Jonathan Lethem have obtained such a stellar endorsement for 'The Fortress of Solitude' from Michael Chabon, if not for the years they spent ghostwriting 'MAD' magazine fold-ins together?

Together Solitude Mad Years Would

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

Albert Einstein

Life Creative Mind Solitude Quiet

For a writer, for the solitude to write, you don't need a room of your own, you need a house.

Sandra Cisneros

Solitude You House Write Need Room

We leave TVs on in our house. I listen to my record player constantly to just hear music. I'm really intrigued by this idea of solitude.

Music Solitude House Listen Leave

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

Solitude Way Ground Whim Breeding

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.

Prayer Solitude Enough Wings You Go

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

Good Solitude More Difficult Reason

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

Soul Solitude Thoughtful Retires

I had to learn - since I'm divorced now and everyone is like, 'Oh my God, you're single, what's going on?' - that if I don't like to spend time with myself, how can I ask someone else to enjoy spending time with me? I'm getting to learn how to enjoy my solitude and have a good time.

Gabrielle Union

Good God Time Myself Me Solitude

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Dag Hammarskjold

Friendship Loneliness Words Solitude

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

Support Solitude Burden Keep Us Our

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

Solitude Planning Think Dreaming

I need quiet and solitude to work. Darkness is best. If I am wide awake, I can't write.

Work Best Darkness I Am Solitude

I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.

Work Live Solitude I Can Chapter

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

Solitude Society Us Should Shows

Trucking-company terminals are places where paperwork gets filled out, driving orders are given, and partners are assigned. They can often be social hubs for drivers, breaking up the monotony and solitude they face on the road.

Solitude Road Face Driving Places

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

Jean de la Bruyere

Great Solitude Misfortune Incapable

I really do work in solitude.

Work Solitude Really

Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and have kids. Nothing much happens here.

Good Age City Solitude Evening You

Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Women Alone Solitude Find True Will

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.

Friend Sweet Solitude Say Pleasure

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

Love Time Discipline Solitude You

I have a sort of Catholic-slash-Calvinist view of human nature, but every day I meet somebody who is doing cool things. So people get you out of your solitude and do things that exceed your expectations every day.

Nature Day People Cool Solitude You

I remember when I was a child... walking into the woods by myself and feeling the solitude around me build like electricity and pass through my body with a jolt that made my hair prickle.

Marilynne Robinson

Myself Child Me Solitude Hair Woods

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