Solitude quotations

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◆ The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

- Michel de Montaigne99

◆ Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it's a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.

- Kazuo Ishiguro99

◆ 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 Emerson99

◆ 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 Schopenhauer99

◆ Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.

- Aristotle99

◆ Solitude sometimes is best society.

- John Milton99

◆ Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

- Criss Jami99

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

- Albert Einstein99

◆ We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

- C.S. Lewis99

◆ If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

- Criss Jami99

◆ If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight.

- Leonardo da Vinci99

◆ Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.

- May Sarton99

◆ 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 Rilke99

◆ Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow.

- Khalil Gibran99

◆ Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.

- Hermann Hesse99