1,686 Quotes About Solitude

Solitude need not be lonely if you make friends with your thoughts.

How can we expect to be happy when we have no peace of mind, when our mind is constantly jumping from the present to the past? When your mind is constantly running and filled with anxiety and fear, where is the freedom? You are stuck in the prison of your mind, stuck in thoughts and feelings from yesterday, from five years ago. There comes a time when everyone has to stop, look deep, breathe and let go.

Far from the shore stands the grey lighthouse, above sunken slimy rocks that are seen when the tide is low, but unseen when the tide is high. Past that beacon for a century have swept the majestic barques of the seven seas. In the days of my grandfather there were many; in the days of my father not so many; and now there are so few that I sometimes feel strangely alone, as though I were the last man on our planet.

At the same time that I welcomed the busy confusion, I felt a stab of regret for the first sweet lonely months of my life in this city that touched me so deeply. I like the image of my own loneliness. The brief meaningless rendezvous with men quickly forgotten. I promised to keep enough of myself aloof from these new entanglements so that I might go on reveling in that delicious privacy.

Self-love is a zone prohibiting the entrances of painful solitude state and self inferiority complex.

All is One. Solitude is a choice (and so is loneliness).

Reading(anything) is at once a solitary activity and a connection with another mind.

A true minimalist likes to say the most with the least.

You won't find me socializing, because I love my solitude. You won't find me in parties, because I love my loneliness.