1,686 Quotes About Solitude

People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.

I'll read my books and I'll drink coffee and I'll listen to music and I'll bolt the door.

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.

Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It 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.

Betrayed and wronged in everything,I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king,And seek some spot unpeopled and apartWhere I’ll be free to have an honest heart.

fall in lovewith your solitude

I prefer to be left alone with my books.

The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.