Solitude Quotations

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

Those moments of solitude and exhibiting a mental breakdown, and how you do that physically and without it being too obvious, but being relatively settled but relatively intense. There are some intense moments in there that sort of pepper his breakdown.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which you say "Oh look!" Nobody was beside her to share the moment, which would have been imperfect with anyone else there.

Solitary and farouche people don't have relationships; they are quite unrelatable. If you and I were capable of being altogether house-trained and made jolly, we should be nicer people, but not writers.

After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it.

To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul.

The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.

Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.

What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves.