33 Quotes About Solitude-as-a-choice

Sometimes solitude is a real heaven for the tired minds and a marvellous sanctuary for the wounded souls!

How difficult it is to find solitude in a world that constantly demands your attention.

I have always believed it my right to have a locked door between me and the world, and to hold the key myself. Now look at it, kicked open. The doors are off their hinges, the portals unguarded, every cover blown.

I covet solitude and storms…and rain, with its geography of dark silence and distance

If man will understand the real essence of staying in the solitude with his Maker alone, he will never spend all his time with the crowd always

in a few moments he came into the core of himself, where he was alone, and felt strangely companioned, not by anyone or anything, but by himself. The rejected self found refuge here, not a cowed refuge, but somehow a wandering ease; as if it were indestructible, and had its own final pride, its own secret eyes.

I prize my downtime, count on it as a writer, a parent, a person. Sometimes I think of Woody Allen's remark about masturbation, that it is sex with someone he loves. I feel as though being alone is hanging out with someone I like.

In times of solitude, I have find rest for my soul and uphold the glory of inner peace.

I always took to anything that required solitude...it kept me from having to deal with other humans who, for no explainable reason, I didn't like nor trust.