1,686 Quotes About Solitude

Live each day with ecstatic serenity

It takes a very selfish person to not feel lonely at times.

Si tu te sens seul lorsque tu es seul, tu es en mauvaise compagnie.

This parcel of life, this here, is mine and mine alone.

Tea made for one person has rare herbs in it. Tea made for a group has lots of sugar in it. Those who go alone on spiritual journey get the rare treasure of knowledge. Those who join a group just sing sweet glories of ancient knowledge, instead of getting the actual knowledge.

There is a solitude of spaceA solitude of seaA solitude of death, but theseSociety shall beCompared with that profounder siteThat polar privacyA soul admitted to itself –Finite infinity.

Maybe you were never actually lonely for other people. All along, maybe you were lonely for the earth.

This something sparked on a little island off the rocky coast of Maine would grow from a twinge to a hunger to a need you would spend years, a decade, a lifetime pursuing.

In reaching for stone, wood, water, and feather, I found my own edges softening, scars fading.