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Solitude Quotes

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Alone Solitude Isolation

Often, marriage was solitude, with company.

Marriage Solitude Company Often

Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.

Mountain Me Solitude Climb Grit

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

Augusten Burroughs

Focus Solitude Reading Takes

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

Solitude Friends Quiet Sincere Noise

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

Solitude Isolation Lonely You Phone

To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.

Solitude Others Only Passions Which

I write in order to find out what I truly know and how I really feel about certain things. Writing requires me to go much deeper into my thoughts and memories than conversation does. Writing provides the solitude necessary to reflect on being in this world.

Leslie Marmon Silko

Memories Me Thoughts Solitude World

My favorite books are actually very complicated - 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'Ulysses'.

James Patterson

Solitude Complicated Years Books

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

Time Solitude World Deep Busy Make

I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.

Life Solitude Quiet Like Quiet Life

Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.

Work Hard Work Sea Peace Solitude

A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.

Solitude Process Editing Film Set

Don't be a writer; it's a terrible way to live your life. There's nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don't expect anything from anybody.

Life Live Solitude Poverty You Go

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

God Solitude Beast Wild Either

Someone who's awake in the middle of the night is a soul consciousness when everyone else is asleep, and that creates a feeling of solitude in poetry that I very much like.

Soul Poetry Solitude Night Someone

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

Power Solitude Room Something Writer

At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what this entailed, exactly - a room, I supposed. A room and books and paper and solitude.

Life Age Solitude Writing My Life

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

Karen Armstrong

Silence Solitude Lose Without Loner

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.

Knowledge People Solitude World See

The country is more of a wilderness, more of a wild solitude, in the winter than in the summer. The wild comes out. The urban, the cultivated, is hidden or negatived.

Winter Solitude Wilderness Country

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

Alone Loneliness Solitude Self

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Life Women Man People Solitude

Frightening things happen in solitude.

Solitude Things Happen Happen Things

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