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Solitude Quotes

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Darkness Poetry Sweet Solitude Poet

One can't live in solitude. To survive as a single family unit is not possible.

Nushrat Bharucha

Family Live Solitude Survive Single

Solitude is the place of purification.

Although I've made notes for things and even written synopses sitting in trains or on park benches, for the complete composition of things I need absolute solitude, preferably an empty house.

Solitude House Sitting Need Park

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

Henry David Thoreau

Friendship Solitude Society House

I love hotels for their solitude and comfort, but I believe a seedy one can have as much promise as a plush one.

Love Solitude Believe Comfort Hotels

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

Me Solitude Find Write Need Hard

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Religion Mind Solitude Powerful Will

There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.

Travel Silence Solitude You Find

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.

Strength Alone Man Solitude Weakness

'One Hundred Years of Solitude' convinced me to drop out of Harvard graduate school. The novel reminded me of everything my Ph.D. program was trying to make me forget. Thank you, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

School Me Solitude Thank You You

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

School Solitude Genius Understanding

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

Salvatore Quasimodo

Day Solitude Night Landscape Dark

How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.

Solitude Think Independence Privacy

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

People Solitude You Would Avoid

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Creative Solitude America Greatest

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Barbara De Angelis

Women Balance Solitude Moments Need

Being a writer usually entails a fairly quiet life. However much travel one might do, however many tours and appearances, the job entails solitude: long hours in libraries, long hours at a desk.

Jill Paton Walsh

Life Job Travel Solitude Long Quiet

I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude.

Decision Happy Me Solitude Lonely

But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.

Relationship Mountains Solitude Think

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.

John Stuart Blackie

God Men Man Solitude Speak Wit

African-Americans assume I'm named after the notorious Soledad prison or Mount Soledad in California. Latinos want to know if I'm lonely. That doesn't fit, because I grew up with five siblings, and I have four kids of my own, so I'm not lonely at all, though I do often seek solitude, the actual meaning of my name.

Soledad O'Brien

Solitude Prison Name Lonely Meaning

Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking my solitude is part of a writer's sensibility.

Time Solitude Choice My Own Own

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

Soul Solitude Twenty

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