Top 43 Solitude Quotes

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Sometimes solitude is the best medicine. With that in mind, check out the top 43 solitude quotes.

#43 – 40. Solitude Quotes

43. History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. – Thomas Carlyle

42. In solitude, where we are least alone. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

41. We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. – C.S. Lewis

40. The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#39 – 30. Solitude Quotes

39. In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. – Laurence Sterne

38. The right to be alone — the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man. – Louis D. Brandeis

37. Solitude was my only consolation – deep, dark, deathlike solitude. – Mary Shelley

36. Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt in solitude, where we are least alone. – Lord Byron

35. He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. – Aristotle

34. Seclusion is the price of greatness. – Paramahansa Yogananda, ‘The Divine Romance’

33. Life without a friend is death without a witness. – Proverb

32. People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve. – John Miller

31. This great misfortune — to be incapable of solitude. – Jean De La Bruyere

30. Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. – Franz Kafka

#29 – 20. Solitude Quotes

29. One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude. – Gary Mark Gilmore

28. The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One’s stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death. – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

27. Life’s an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming. – Emily Carr

26. Man was formed for society and is neither capable of living alone, nor has the courage to do it. – William Blackstone

25. The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. – Pearl Buck

24. Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are. – Robert Cecil

23. We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders. – Maya Angelou

22. Solitude is the great teacher, and to learn its lessons you must pay attention to it. – Deepak Chopra

21. Letter writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company. – Lord Byron

20. Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. – Edward Gibbon

#19 – 10. Solitude Quotes

19. Talent is nurtured in solitude … A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. – Johann Wolfgang Von Göethe

18. Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. – Francis Bacon

17. To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. – Joseph Addison

16. Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything. – Willa Cather

15. No matter how close to yours another’s steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you’ll do alone. – Jackson Browne

14. All man’s miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone. – Blaise Pascal

13. Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. – Arthur Brisbane

12. Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful. – Albert Camus

11. I see nothing for you on this earth but that field which I once christened ‘Briars;’ go out upon that, build yourself a hut, and there begin the grand process of devouring yourself alive. I see no alternative, no other hope for you. – William Ellery Channing

10. I am never less alone than when alone. – Cicero, ‘Cicero De Officiis’

#9 – 1. Solitude Quotes

9. What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be. – Ellen Burstyn

8. Every kind of creative work demands solitude, and being alone, constructively alone, is a prerequisite for every phase of the creative process. – Barbara Powell

7. If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company. – Jean-Paul Sartre

6. Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. – Sir Thomas Browne

5. Without great solitude no serious work is possible. – Pablo Picasso

4. The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold. – Boufflers

3. When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death—ourselves. – Eda LeShan

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

1. The best thinking has been done in solitude. – Thomas A. Edison

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