They who do not fear darkness have learned to light their own candle. Dodinsky
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. Maya Angelou
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful. Sigmund Freud
Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Nikola Tesla
Make the time to be alone. Your best ideas live within solitude. Robin Sharma
There’s staggering power in leaving the world and heading out into some solitude for at least and hour every day. Robin Sharma
He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. Henry Ward Beecher
Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. Criss Jami
We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we
withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But
then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that
our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And
suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by
its multiplicity, for our innermost soul we know ourselves to be one
with all being. Hermann Hesse
Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut
diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them
and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. Ralph Waldo
Emerson
What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the
people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual
life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and
meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think
they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the
world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live
after our own. Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is much better to walk alone, in the right direction, than to follow the herd, walking in the wrong direction. Lone Wolf Quotes
Let others worry about being socially acceptable; those
types are a dime a dozen, and you are after a power greater than they
can imagine. Robert Greene
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
You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from
men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or
chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect
creature, fitted for a higher society. Henry David Thoreau
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be. May Sarton
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
Solitude is the place of purification and transformation, the place of the great struggle and the great encounter. Henri Nouwen
We live in a very tense society. We are pulled apart… and
we all need to learn how to pull ourselves together… I think that at
least part of the answer lies in solitude. Helen Hayes
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 Goethe
In the solitude of your dreams grows the flame that will bring the light to this world. Unknown
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. Michel de Montaigne
Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments. Stephen Crane
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. Plato
We must use time as a tool, not as a couch. John F. Kennedy
Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. Coco Chanel
Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. C.S. Lewis
Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you. George R.R. Martin
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them. Stephen King
You should never take more than you give. Elton John
Take a long pause …breathe and know that things are happening for you not to you. Ashton Kutcher
It’s nice to be important, but it’s also important to be nice. Never forget that. Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat)
Be careful how you judge people, most of all friends. You don’t sum up a man’s life in one moment. Al Pacino
You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak. George Clooney
Doubt can motivate you, so don’t be afraid of it.
Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both.
They balance each other out. Barbra Streisand
Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but
you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this.
Céline Dion
A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can’t play the part of a wise man. Malcolm X
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Albert Einstein
A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. Bruce Lee
I don’t care that they stole my idea… I care that they don’t have any of their own. Nikola Tesla
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare
Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. Warren Buffett
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things. Isaac Newton
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do
not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge. Nicolaus
Copernicus
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter Drucker
People are more impressed by the power of our example rather than the example of our power. Bill Clinton
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson
Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. Voltaire
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant
The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude. Voltaire
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. May Sarton
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. Arthur Schopenhauer
Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for
the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living. Albert
Einstein
All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone. Blaise Pascal
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
Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You are born alone. You die alone. The value of the space in between is trust and love. Louise Bourgeois
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. Edward Gibbon
I myself am best when least in company. William Shakespeare
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. Buddha
A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you. Rumi
In stillness lives wisdom. In quiet you’ll find peace. In solitude you’ll remember yourself. Robin Sharma
I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was
like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude
weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it.
The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me. Charles Bukowski
I lived in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in maturity. Albert Einstein
A well-ordered mind is at home with solitude. The Stoic Emperor
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for
it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live. Bertrand
Russell
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude. Aldous Huxley
In proportion as a person simplifies his life, the laws
of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be
solitude. Henry David Thoreau
The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. Nikola Tesla
The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at
your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply 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. Franz Kakfa
Once you know how to take care of yourself, company becomes an option. Keenu Reeves
In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone. Ayn Rand
I am never less alone than when alone. Cicero
In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude. Robert Brault
Be there for others, but never leave yourself behind. Dodinsky
It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment. Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship! Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez
Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone. C.S. Lewis
If you love someone, you are always joined with them – in joy, in absence, in solitude, in strife. Rumi
The worst thing about being lied to is simply knowing you weren’t worth the truth. David Roads
Experiment. Live a little. And remember that the fear of
absence is the surest sign that absence is direly needed. Michael Harris
The final word is love… To love we must know each other…
and we know each other in the breaking of bread, and we are not alone
any more. Dorothy Day
Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison to
you. But let this be your honor: always to love more than you are loved
and never to be second in this. Friedrich Nietzsche
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of
loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them
as a means of escape. Bell Hooks
You don’t get together to be alone. Grant Cardone
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone – we find it with another. Thomas Merton
When society is made up of men who know no interior
solitude it can no longer be held together by love: and consequently it
is held together by a violent and abusive authority. Thomas Merton
We have to be wholly at peace with the prospect of many
years of solitude in order to be appropriately picky; otherwise, we risk
loving no longer being single rather more than we love the partner who
spared us that fate. Alain de Botton
We’re simply not here to go it alone. Only through relating constructively with others do we self-actualize. Marianne Williamson
Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away. Barbara De Angelis
I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each should stand guard over the solitude of the other. Rainer Maria Rilke
Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Kahlil Gibran
We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. Aldous Huxley
Be alone. Eat alone, take yourself on dates, sleep alone.
In the midst of this you will learn about yourself. You will grow, you
will figure out what inspires you, you will curate your own dreams, your
own beliefs, your own stunning clarity, and when you do meet the person
who makes your cells dance, you will be sure of it, because you are
sure of yourself. Bianca Sparacino
If you love a flower, don’t pick one. If you pick it, it
dies and ceases to be what you love. So, if you love a flower, let it
be. Osho
Love from one being to another can only be that two
solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other. Han
Suyin
Time was passing
like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never
have to think about anything as much as I think about you. Jonathan
Safran Foer
This quiet ongoing solitude of mine is how I say I miss you without admitting it out loud. Beau Taplin
Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don’t find themselves at all. Rollo May
Just as love is the divine condition, so solitude is the
human condition. And for those who understand the miracle of life, those
two states peacefully coexist. Paulo Coelho
Without solitude, love will not stay long by your side. Paulo Coelho
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are. Robert Cecil
Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor play to stay. Josh Billings
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude. Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. Epicurus
On being alone: I think it’s a good thing to do; you get
to know yourself, and I think that’s the most important thing in the
whole world. Robert Paul Smith
As a society moves from scarcity to abundance, the cultural value that is most likely to be underdeveloped is restraint. Michael
Deep understanding requires deep thinking which requires
focused time alone, away from the chatter of people online and offline.
It requires staying with a single thought for a long time, focusing on
it and developing it. In solitude is the genesis of great ideas. The
Ancient Sage
Aloneness is obviously not isolation, and it is not
uniqueness. To be unique is merely to be exceptional in some way,
whereas to be completely alone demands extraordinary sensitivity,
intelligence, understanding. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of
it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole
universe. Lao Tzu
Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The value of solitude – one of its values – is, of
course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within,
just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress
or depression. May Sarton
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 S. Buck
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
We visit others as a matter of social obligation. How long has it been since we have visited with ourselves? Morris Adler
Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing. Fred Rogers
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if
he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when
he is alone that he is really free. Arthur Schopenhauer
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition.
Man is the only being who knows he is alone, and the only one who seeks
out another. Octavio Paz
Man is nostalgia and a search for communion. Therefore,
when he is aware of himself he is aware of his lack of another, that is,
of his solitude. Octavio Paz
We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need
summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest. Philip Gilbert
Hamerton
No person can achieve significance alone. John C. Maxwell
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. Mel Robbins
In solitude one finds only what he carries there with him. Juan Ramon Jimenez
