1,686 Quotes About Solitude

loneliness as solitude with self-pity thrown in.

In solitude, the mind and bodyAre not troubled by distraction.Therefore leave this worldly lifeAnd totally abandon mental wandering.

This is love, I think, to hold a name carefully between the teeth, to hold without swallowing.

A thousand men could not keep me warm. My soulmate is the totality of the teeming earth.

Sometimes you have to stay alone, a little moment of solitude gives you the opportunity to knock on the door to your brain, and it opens to a sudden bright idea.

Sensuality loves solitude.

Idet hun forsigtigt havde banet sig vej gennem græsset, da hun med ét kommet til en lysning midt inde i det, en ganske lille åben plads, som en alkove med gyldengrønne omhæng. Hun havde pludselig følt, at hun her var lige i hjertet af sit kongerige, hun var blevet så lykkelig bevæget derved. Ak, mon hun kunne finde det hellige hemmelighedsfulde sted igen? Hvis hun fandt det, ville hun stå ganske stille derinde, skjult for hele verden.

Then I met you, young, ardent, happy, and I tried to make you the man I had longed for in my noisy solitude. What I loved in you was not the man who was, but the man who was going to be. You do not accept the position, you reject it as unworthy of you; you are an ordinary lover. Do like the others; pay me, and say no more about it.

Sometimes in the thick quiet of those soft summer nights, I listen. For it is in the quiet that the voices of things deep and marvelous and adventurous whisper simply because a world of noise grants them no space. Therefore, if we have no quiet, we will hear plenty of noise, but we will not hear a single voice.