Loneliness And Solitude Quotes

In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.

Theres a difference between solitude and loneliness

lonely people are always up in the middle of the night.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

By all means use sometimes to be alone.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

Loneliness is equal to the radius of one's awareness.

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.

Loneliness is a drug, a narcotic; it grows through veins, through nerves and muscles; it assumes some right of possession over your body and mind; it feeds itself, and creates its own requirement. Loneliness and solitude are walls.

Loneliness and solitude are two different things. When you are lonely, it is easy to delude yourself into believing that you are on the right path. Solitude is better for us, as it means being alone without feeling lonely. But eventually it is best to find a person, the person who will be your mirror. Remember, only in another person's heart can you truly see yourself and the presence of God within you.

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

I will fill myself with the desert and the sky. I will be stone and stars, unchanging and strong and safe. The desert is complete; it is spare and alone, but perfect in its soltitude. I will be the desert.

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

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

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

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.

You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.

The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone is dying. Books are written by the alone for the alone.

Sometimes you weren't supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

I owe everything that I have done to the fact that I am very much at ease being alone.

My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.

When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death-ourselves.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

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

Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.

You only grow when you are alone.

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

Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.

Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.

I don't deliberately look for something dark or bleak or disconnected, in fact that's not something I'm even conscious of in the work as I'm making it. I'm always trying to create beauty, reveal hope, show the sense of longing that exists in isolation and loneliness, and capture the search for something greater inside all of my subjects.

If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

I want to be left alone.

Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.