Solitude Quotes

After four years of Freudian analysis I realized I had written Solitary Man about myself.

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

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give.

Loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people than I feel on my own.

Without great solitude no serious work is possible.

O leave this barren spot to me!
Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.

Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together.

One can acquire everything in solitude — except character.