1,686 Quotes About Solitude

I'm always quiet. Quiet with the storms inside me.

true contemplation is peacefully emptying your mind of all thoughts...thinking too much. is just, thinking too much

Just take my hand, lead, dance with me...and I will simply follow the blueness of the water, the white waves rolling free...where the earth beneath my feet and stars make my heart whole again...in long and priceless moments of shared solitude...

When you're socially awkward, you're isolated more than usual, and when you're isolated more than usual, your creativity is less compromised by what has already been said and done. All your hope in life starts to depend on your craft, so you try to perfect it. One reason I stay isolated more than the average person is to keep my creativity as fierce as possible. Being the odd one out may have its temporary disadvantages, but more importantly, it has its permanent advantages.

Mot of my trips up Bald Mountain have been in isolation. This is part of the joy of the mountains for me. - Greg Goodman on HIKE NUMBER 11: Bald Mountain, p. 76

After long years of solitary meditation, Jenny had come to accept that, for her, magic was a depth and a stillness rather than the moving brilliance that it was for the great.

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose.

Where there are people, there is a drama, a story, a circus. It doesn't matter if they are in a corporate office or a spiritual group.