Solitude Quotes

"Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone."

"Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone."

"If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little."

"Remember we're all in this alone."

"The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want."

"I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone."

"The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself."

"Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame."

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

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

"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far."

"To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet."

"To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude."

"I was never less alone than when by myself."

"We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders."

"I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone."

"Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own."

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

"The Lord had the wonderful advantage of being able to work alone."

"He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything."

"I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life."

"The lonely become either thoughtful or empty."

"We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."

"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."

"Solitude is un-American."

"I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone."

"To live alone is the fate of all great souls."

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

"Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion."

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

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

"I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel."

"It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone."

"The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all."

"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone."

"I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone."

"Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success."

"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone."

"True love is not a strong, fiery, impetuous passion. It is, on the contrary, an element calm and deep. It looks beyond mere externals, and is attracted by qualities alone. It is wise and discriminating, and its devotion is real and abiding."

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

"Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another."

"Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead life to sovereign power."

"Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth."

"To be adult is to be alone."

"The doer alone learneth."

"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room."

"I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do."

"The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone."

"Solitude vivifies; isolation kills."