Solitude Quotes

"'Being green' is commendable, but I hope that people don't take too much pride and self-adoration because they shut off the water when they brushed their teeth. The truth of the matter is, conservation alone will do little to save our planet."

"A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future."

"A leader does not deserve the name unless he is willing occasionally to stand alone."

"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free."

"A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven."

"A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode."

"A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."

"A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility."

"A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people."

"Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind."

"Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful."

"All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."

"All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone."

"All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone."

"All the goodness I have within me is totally from the Lord alone. When I sin, it is from me and is done on my own, but when I act righteously, it is wholly and completely of God."

"An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness."

"Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it can't express everything that man can, wants to, and has to express. I think God built this into man. Art along with science is the highest gift God has given him."

"Art makes us feel less alone. It makes us think: somebody else has thought this, somebody else has had these feelings."

"As a body everyone is single, as a soul never."

"As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us."

"As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone."

"Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company."

"At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone."

"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."

"Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself."

"Before I started school striking I had no energy, no friends and I didn't speak to anyone. I just sat alone at home, with an eating disorder. All of that is gone now, since I have found a meaning, in a world that sometimes seems shallow and meaningless to so many people."

"Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts."

"Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you."

"Being alone with fear can rapidly turn into panic. Being alone with frustration can rapidly turn into anger. Being alone with disappointment can rapid turn into discouragement and, even worse, despair."

"Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain."

"Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself."

"Better be alone than in bad company."

"Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone."

"Birds and animals probably think without knowing that they think; that is, they have not self-consciousness. Only man seems to be endowed with this faculty; he alone develops disinterested intelligence, intelligence that is not primarily concerned with his own safety and well-being but that looks abroad upon things."

"Blood alone moves the wheels of history."

"Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past."

"By all means use some time to be alone."

"Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships."

"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."

"Change alone is unchanging."

"Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us."

"Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone."

"Democracy is liberty - a liberty which does not infringe on the liberty nor encroach on the rights of others; a liberty which maintains strict discipline, and makes law its guarantee and the basis of its exercise. This alone is true liberty; this alone can produce true democracy."

"Do something to help your community or people around you. That will help you feel more worthwhile and less alone."

"Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone."

"Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone."

"Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game."