Solitude Quotes

"Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it."

"I'm not a very glamorous person. I like to just sit alone in a room and read a book or meditate."

"I'm just a monk, I'm like a recluse."

"And going into my studio at night, particularly at night when everybody's asleep, is just a total pleasure for me."

"Never having alone time is real tough on people."

“I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.”

"I'm learning the power of going away for the weekend and keeping myself company."

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore."

Lord Byron

"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone."

Blaise Pascal

"Time and space – time to be alone, space to move about – these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow."

Edwin Way Teale

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness."

Alfred North Whitehead

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

May Sarton

"Language has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone."

Paul Tillich

"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Honoré de Balzac

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore."

Lord Byron

“I restore myself when I'm alone.”

“I've been called a recluse. There's definitely truth in that. I like to spend time alone.”

“I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked.”

“If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey.”

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

“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”