Solitude helps you find peace. Peace helps you find happiness.
Maxime Lagacé
In solitude one finds only what he carries there with him.
Juan Ramon Jimenez
To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do to this, you need to experience solitude, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.
Deepak Chopra
Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.
Lao Tzu
Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.
Albert Einstein
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
Robert Cecil
If the blissful connection of a counterpart is the apex of all human emotion, why am I so happy so stand alone and feel the breeze?
Anonymous
Give solitude a chance. You’ve got nothing to lose. And your life to gain back.
Joshua Becker
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Arthur Schopenhauer
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
Tennessee Williams
Spend some time alone. There’s so much you don’t know about yourself.
Thibaut
In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.
Albert Camus
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
May Sarton
I’ve never been lonely. I like myself. I’m the best form of entertainment I have.
Charles Bukowski
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Henry David Thoreau
The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.
Voltaire
Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.
Stephen Crane
Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter.
Henri Nouwen
The best thinking has been done in solitude.
Thomas A. Edison
True solitude is found in the wild places, where one is without human obligation. One’s inner voices become audible… In consequence, one responds more clearly to other lives. Wendell Berry
Wendell Berry
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.
Criss Jami
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau
They who do not fear darkness have learned to light their own candle.
Dodinsky
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
Laurence Sterne
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
Marcus Aurelius
Solitude appeared to me as the only fit state of man.
Walter Benjamin
It would do the world good if every person would compel himself to often be alone. Most of the world’s progress has come from such.
Deepak Chopra
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear.
George Herbert
It’s easy to stand in the crowd but it takes courage to stand alone.
Mahatma Gandhi
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
Henry David Thoreau
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Society is no comfort, to one not sociable.
William Shakespeare
Solitude isn’t loneliness. Solitude is when the entire serene universe seems to surround and hold you quietly.
Victoria Erickson
It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.
Rumi
In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.
Ayn Rand
I myself am best when least in company.
William Shakespeare
Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.
Pablo Picasso
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It 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 Tillich
Once you know how to take care of yourself, company becomes an option.
Keenu Reeves
Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.
Frank Miller
Solitude, in these days as much as ever, is an absolute necessity.
Leo Babauta
No person can achieve significance alone.
John C. Maxwell