Solitude Quotes - Page 19

• In solitude, you accumulate energy to spend in crowds; and in crowds, you accumulate energy to spend in solitude!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Energy, Crowds

  4 Copy quote

• Moments of solitude are the holiest moments to think wisely!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Thinking, Moments

  4 Copy quote

• In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare.

  Victor Hugo

  Dream, Fall, Heart

  Victor Hugo (2001). “William Shakespeare”, p.80, The Minerva Group, Inc.

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Really living like Christ will not mean reward, social recognition, and an assured income, but difficulties, discrimination, solitude, anxiety. Here, too, the basic experience of the cross applies: the wider we open our hearts to others, the more audibly we intervene against the injustice that rules over us, the more difficult our lives in the rich unjust society will become.

  Dorothee Solle

  Heart, Mean, Unjust Society

  Dorothee Sölle (1990). “Thinking about God: an introduction to theology”, Trinity Pr Intl

  35 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.

  Maggie Nelson

  Loneliness, Trying, Dignity

  Maggie Nelson (2009). “Bluets”, p.28, Wave Books

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• To be a good storyteller one must be gloriously alive. It is not possible to kindle fresh fires from burned-out embers. I have noticed that the best of the traditional storytellers whom I have heard have been those who live close to the heart of things-to the earth, the sea, wind and weather. They have been those who knew solitude, silence. They have been given unbroken time in which to feel deeply, to reach constantly for understanding. They have come to know the power of the spoken word. These storytellers have been sailors and peasants, wanderers and fisherman.

  Ruth Sawyer

  Heart, Wind, Sea

  19 Copy quote

• Imagination flourishes best in solitude.

  Anthony Storr

  Imagination

  Anthony Storr (2015). “Feet Of Clay: The Power and Charisma of Gurus”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.

  John Donne

  Hell, Torment, Threatened

  Awakenings

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• The spiritual journey is one that we must take "alone together," in the same way that a good marriage involves a dance between solitude and communion. The life of the spirit entails a continuous alternation between retreating into oneself and going out into the world: it's an inward-outward journey. There is a solitary part to it, but that solitude helps us to develop richer and more in-depth relationships with our friends, our children, our community, and the political world.

  Sam Keen

  Spiritual, Children, Journey

  21 Copy quote

• The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it helps), but the fact that no real writers ever lay down anything real in public-they work in solitude, they think hard, and their thoughts are rarely nice or 'friendly.'

  Andrei Codrescu

  Real, Nice, Thinking

  7 Copy quote

• Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not interested in the notion that art serves something. Art is useless, not useful.

  Richard Serra

  Determination, Art, People

  53 Copy quote

• Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.

  Dean Koontz

  Loneliness, Doors, Two

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.123, Bantam

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have always loved solitude, a trait which tends to increase with age.

  Albert Einstein

  Age, Increase, Traits

  5 Copy quote

• If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.

  Mark Twain

  Boring, Wells, Ifs

  23 Copy quote

• Animals are born and bred in litters. Solitude grows blessed and peaceful only in old age.

  George Santayana

  Blessed, Animal, Peaceful

  George Santayana (1986). “The Works of George Santayana”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• To seek solitude like a wild animal.  That is my only ambition.

  Dalai Lama

  Ambition, Animal, Wild Animal

  4 Copy quote

• The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.91, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• True happiness is impossible without solitude.... I need solitude in my life as I need food and drink and the laughter of little children. Extravagant though it may sound, solitude is the filter of my soul. It nourishes me, and rejuvenates me. Left alone, I discovered that I keep myself good company.

  Sophia Loren

  Laughter, Children, Soul

  75 Copy quote

• Spend time for yourself, walk in solitude, refresh your mind and body so that you can spend time for others and walk with them! Spend time for yourself!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Mind, Body, Time For Yourself

  6 Copy quote

• Thanks to the night, we long for the day; thanks to the day, we long for the night! The purpose of the opposites is to make us long for something! Thanks to the crowds, we long for the solitude; thanks to the solitude, we long for the crowds!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Night, Opposites, Long

  4 Copy quote

• When you are alone, bless the solitude; when you are with someone, bless the togetherness! Think of the seagull: It flies alone happily; it flies with another happily too! Solitude is a food; togetherness is a food; man needs both and he must be happy with both!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Thinking, Needs

  247 Copy quote

• You can't think well while people are around you! Best thoughts visit us in the twilight of solitude!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Twilight, Thinking, People

  4 Copy quote

• Solitude is unquenched ego.

  Kedar Joshi

  Ego

  4 Copy quote

• Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.

  Honore de Balzac

  Labor

  4 Copy quote

• Solitude is a place where all is quiet - except the beating of your heart.

  Jeanne Marie Laskas

  Heart, Quiet

  9 Copy quote