Solitude Quotes

We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — “Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought.”

There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude that gives everything back its value.[Il y a une solitude dans la pauvreté, mais une solitude qui rend son prix à chaque chose.]

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

The artist after all is a solitary being.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.[Solo en la soledad nos encontramos; y al encontrarnos a nosotros mismos, encontramos en nosotros mismos a todos nuestros hermanos en la soledad.]

It is a strange thing to be so widely known, and yet to be so lonely.

In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude.

I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.