1,686 Quotes About Solitude

Thinking is a way of condemning oneself to solitude.

What Rilke said: I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

To resist the social pressure now put even on one's leisure time, requires a tougher upbringing and a more obstinate willfulness about going one's own way, than ever before.

I was too much in solitude, and consequently was obliged to be in continual burning of thought, as an only resource.

Solitude is a greater treasure than money.

I like being on my own better than I like anything else, but I can't give up love. Maybe it's the tension between longing and aloneness that I need. My own funicular railway, holding in balance the two things most likely to destroy me.

No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother.

Like dry ground welcoming the rain, he let the solitude, silence, and loneliness soak in.

Was it really some other person I was so anxious to discover...or was it only my own solitude that I could not abide?