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Solitude Quotes

I live in solitude. I have need of solitude to do the next day's work. I can't be to parties where the noise tires me. I can't speak on the telephone. I must have complete calm.

Yves Saint Laurent

Work Live Day Me Solitude Calm

Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God.

Saint Francis de Sales

God Heart Solitude Others Talk Own

Walt Whitman is the only great modern poet who does not seem to experience discord when he faces his world. Not even solitude - his monologue is a universal chorus.

Great Experience Solitude World Poet

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

Heart Alone Solitude Society End Us

What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

Light Solitude Write Heat Need Well

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Solitude Society Inspired Only

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Loneliness Solitude Pleasant

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

Alone Beach Sun Solitude Go Embrace

Sometimes the only kind of innovation comes when you have some solitude; when you step away.

Innovation Step Solitude You Kind

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

Loneliness Solitude I Can Understand

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

People Solitude Company May Almost

Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.

Alone Solitude Feeling Infinite Felt

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

Jorge Luis Borges

Walk Memory Solitude Night Thinking

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.

Alone Myself Solitude Nostalgia Know

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Health Jealousy Solitude Nothing Our

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Great Men Solitude Build Nest Like

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

Great Solitude Little Virtues

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Alone Solitude Society Lose Able

Writers want to talk. They can't wait to tell you what they've been thinking. And because they've been in solitude, they've had some fairly decent thoughts.

Mariella Frostrup

Thoughts Solitude Wait Thinking You

Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.

Kevin Patterson

Solitude Small Lost Awareness

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

Honore de Balzac

Solitude Someone You Need Tell Fine

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

Giacomo Leopardi

Life Experience Solitude World Real

The rigors of creativity - the self-doubt, the revising, the solitude - do require a kind of self-consumption. It comes at a cost; a cost that isn't for everyone.

Creativity Solitude Kind Cost

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

Albert Einstein

Solitude Young Mature More Painful

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