Solitude Quotes

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present.”

Thomas Merton

“Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves.”

“Solitude matters, and for some people, it's the air they breathe.”

Susan Cain

“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.”

“I am here alone for the first time in weeks, to take up my "real" life again at last.”

May Sarton

“He was never less alone than when he was alone.”

Cicero

“Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living.”

“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”

Erich Fromm

“Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.”

Kahlil Gibran

“Solitude makes us tougher towards ourselves and tenderer towards others: in both ways it improves our character.”

“To fly from, need not be to hate, mankind.”

Lord Byron

“Solitude is the fate of all outstanding minds.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice.”

Alice Koller

“We live, as we dream, alone.”

Joseph Conrad

“Let us win from ourselves the power to live really alone and to live that way at our ease.”

Michel de Montaigne

“All our unhappiness comes from not being able to be alone.”

Jean de La Bruyère

“I can enjoy society in a room; but out of doors, nature is company enough for me.”

William Hazlitt

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”

John Muir

“The secret of a good old age is simply an honourable pact with solitude.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.”

Octavio Paz

“Those who are much in earnest and with single minds devoted to any great object in life, must find this occasionally inevitable.”