Solitude Quotes

I am at my best when I am alone....and I am not the only one that desires solitude as much as I do!!!

Enjoy.

• A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.... Percy Bysshe Shelley
• In solitude, where we are least alone.  ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
• Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.  ~Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun
• Inside myself is a place where I live all alone, and that's where I renew my springs that never dry up.  ~Pearl Buck
• The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.  ~Voltaire
• No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.  ~Jack Kerouac
• For those uneasy with the world, solitude is the only guarantee of confidence.  ~Terri Guillemets
• You will not find a soulmate in the quiet of your room.  You must go to a noisy place and look in the quiet corners.  ~Robert Brault
• I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.  We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.  ~Henry David Thoreau, "Solitude," Walden, 1854
• Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone.  And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.  ~Paul Johannes Tillich, The Eternal Now
• I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more than that - sauntering through the woods and over the hills and fields, absolutely free from all worldly engagements.  ~Henry David Thoreau
• It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.  ~K.T. Jong
• “I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other”....Rainer Maria Rilke
• “It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it” Rainer Maria Rilke
• Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss. Guru Nanak
• As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. Henry David Thoreau
• Be still, and know that I am God. (Psalm 46:10)