To go along with the silence quotes I shared a few days ago, here’s a few good quotes on Solitude.
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. -Albert Einstein
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. -Mother Teresa of Calcutta
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. -Rainer Maria Rilke
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. -Ellen Burstyn
It is better to travel alone than with a bad companion. -African Proverb quotes
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. -Paul Brunton
Solitude vivifies; isolation kills. -Joseph Roux
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. -Albert Einstein
I owe my solitude to other people. -Alan Watts
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone. -Thomas de Quincey
If you are afraid of being lonely, don’t try to be right. -Jules Renard
The strong man is strongest when alone. -Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Go away, I’m all right! -H. G. Wells
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone. -Arthur Schopenhauer
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. -Laurence Sterne
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. -Henry David Thoreau
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. -Aldous Huxley
Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character. -James Russell Lowell
We walk alone in the world. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The good and the wise lead quiet lives. -Euripides
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. -Eric Hoffer
In solitude, where we are least alone. -Lord Byron
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. -Winston Churchill
A solitude is the audience-chamber of God. -Walter Savage Landor
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. -Arthur Brisbane
I want to be left alone. -Greta Garbo
If you are afraid of loneliness, don’t marry. -Anton Chekhov
Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones. -Sydney Smith
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are. -Robert Cecil
After reading all these, it makes me think I need to set up a “man-cave” for myself. How about yourself?
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. -Albert Einstein
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. -Mother Teresa of Calcutta
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. -Rainer Maria Rilke
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. -Ellen Burstyn
It is better to travel alone than with a bad companion. -African Proverb quotes
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. -Paul Brunton
Solitude vivifies; isolation kills. -Joseph Roux
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely. -Albert Einstein
I owe my solitude to other people. -Alan Watts
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone. -Thomas de Quincey
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right. -Jules Renard
The strong man is strongest when alone. -Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Go away, I'm all right! -H. G. Wells
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone. -Arthur Schopenhauer
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. -Laurence Sterne
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. -Henry David Thoreau
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. -Aldous Huxley
Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character. -James Russell Lowell
We walk alone in the world. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The good and the wise lead quiet lives. -Euripides
With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves. -Eric Hoffer
In solitude, where we are least alone. -Lord Byron
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. -Winston Churchill
A solitude is the audience-chamber of God. -Walter Savage Landor
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. -Arthur Brisbane
I want to be left alone. -Greta Garbo
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry. -Anton Chekhov
Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones. -Sydney Smith
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are. -Robert Cecil
Very inspirational! Thank you.
At times solitude can be a blessing, still as human beings we were born to socialise. I have friends I have known for 56 years, I love spending time with them. My family has been a great joy to me solitude just does not compare.
I did find reading the quotes interesting, thank you Shawn for sharing them.
Learn to enjoy every minute of your life.
Don’t wait for for happiness to reach out and grab you,
Think how precious life really is, the time you have to spend,
to be alone with yourself, to feel one with your inner you
only you can get to know the real you, and though these times of self awakening. Every minute should be enjoyed and savoured.
.-= Carol´s last blog ..Angel Message to us all =-.
One of my grandfather’s favorite sayings that he use to quote to my three brothers and I quite often was, “One man is a whole man, two men is a half man, and three men is no man at all.” When I was young the saying confused me, even upset me, but the older I get the more I have come to understand it. It took a grandfather to drive this point home.
Thanks, David. Very insightful. I forget…do you have a blog of your own? I’d love to read it if you do!
No Shawn, I haven’t set up a blog of my own, at least not yet. If I do, I will be sure to let you know.
In solitude, you have time to think as well as be creative or just contemplate life. I enjoy solitude. You are not pulled in different directions by different people who just don’t understand solitudes’ virtues. You can get so close to your soul.
Laurie dear not only you can get so close to your soul & become soulful but you get connected with all the souls in this world easily..coz of the knowledge you gain through solitude that we all are one..just separate drops of the same ocean…..
Joe White: Go blow it out your nose. I can enjoy solitude if I like for its own sake, without locking myself in a cage from people too. Shut up.
Laurie sweetheart all the ppl r just an xtension of our own innrself(just pluses or minuses of our own self…)
Great quotes. They come at an unstable part of my life. Younger, I rejected the idea of solitude as a social child will. However, not in old age still, I seem to seek solitude yet reject it often, for its association to loneliness.