Quotes about Solitude

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.

If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.

Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine

Most of us have a "Do Not Disturb" sign around our necks.

The ability to be alone with your thoughts is, in fact, one of the key advantages of working remotely. When you work on your own, far away from the buzzing swarm at headquarters, you can settle into your own productive zone. You can actually get work done—the same work that you couldn't get done at work! Yes

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.

They stood together in the gloom of the spruces, an empty world glimmering about them wide and gray under the stars.

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.