Solitude-Quotes

“Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.”

Alice Koller

“Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.”

Thomas Merton

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god”

Francis Bacon

“To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.”

Anna Lousie Strong

“Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.”

Paul Tillich

“It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.”

Einstein

“I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind”

Einstein

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.” Sidonie Gabrielle

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” Ralph Waldo Emerson “When everyone leaves you it’s loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it’s solitude.” Alfred Polgar