Quotes tagged ‘Solitude’

(213 total)

“I have no desire to live in fear. Only solitude.”

— Ira Parker, Rhaenyra Targaryen, Emma D'Arcy, imdb.com

“You don’t need to escape from anything. That’s the first thing you need to understand.”

“Okay, I'm not going to give up. Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon.”

— Richard Appel, Lisa Simpson, Yeardley Smith, imdb.com

“Don't panic. Loneliness, when accepted, is a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.”

— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com

“In the words of the immortal bard, Shakespeare, 'There are three times in a man's life when he wants to be alone: one, when he's communing with his thoughts; two, when he's being tender with his wife; and three, when he's in the isolation booth on 'The $64,000 Question'.'”

— A.J. Russell, Herbert Finn, Ed Norton, Art Carney, imdb.com

“I felt so free for a week. But then, all of a sudden, within days I went from ‘Yay, I'm independent’ to ‘Holy fuck, I'm gonna die alone.’”

— Jill Soloway, David Fisher, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com

“Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity. It oozes out of me like a broken tube of toothpaste; it doesn’t want to stay within the confines of my body. A strange feeling of weight and volume. Soul volume perhaps, which rises like clouds of smoke and envelops my body.”

— Ingmar Bergman, amazon.com

“Solitude comes in different varieties.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Solitude is how we quiet the voices, the incessant chatter. It's how we create the necessary calm, empty spaces. Vision needs solitude. Leadership needs solitude. Courage needs solitude. Because when our choices evolve from an internal place of sure-footed, rooted knowing, we become resilient, embol…”

— Elle Luna, amazon.com

“I certainly do not disagree with you concerning the essential solitude of the individual, for it seems to me the plainest of all truths that no highly organised and freely developed mind can possibly envisage an external world having much in common with the external world invisaged by any other mind…”

— H. P. Lovecraft, hplovecraft.com

“Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. For them are the catacombs of Ptolemais, and the carven mausolea of the nightmare countries. They climb to the moonlit towers of ruined Rhine castles, and falter down black cobwebbed steps beneath the scattered stones of forgotten cities in Asia. The…”

— H. P. Lovecraft, hplovecraft.com

“Let him who cannot be alone beware of community....Let him who is not in community beware of being alone....Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perish…”

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer, amazon.com

“An eagle soaring above a sheer cliff, where I suppose its nest is, makes another striking show of life, and helps to bring to mind the other people of the so-called solitude—deer in the forest caring for their young; the strong, well-clad, well-fed bears; the lively throng of squirrels; the blessed…”

— John Muir, amazon.com

“The strong man is strongest when alone.”

— Friedrich Schiller, amazon.com

“Who shall unravel the mystery of a woman's weeping? Who shall declare whether it is pain or a relief to the over-charged heart? . . . When love's burning finger touches the pulse, and marks its slow or rapid beatings. And Thelma wept, as many of her sex weep, without knowing why, save that all sudde…”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

“Everybody knows tranquility is the soil in which talent grows.”

— Ha Jin, amazon.com

“I like solitude. I like the anomalous life. I like a quiet life.”

— Eric Clapton, cnn.com

“Yet here’s the greater paradox: writing, though performed alone, is also the only absolutely declarative, meaning-beset art form we have. Its purpose is to communicate. With others. More than a painter, much more than a composer, a writer can never “be alone.””

— Patricia Hampl, theparisreview.org

“Think of how many hours a professional golfer has spent on the range, by himself, or chipping green by himself, or putting green by himself. Whereas other team sports, you’re always with a teammate. It’s a totally different atmosphere and a totally different mind-set. We can be loners and never see…”

— Tiger Woods, time.com

“Singleness isn’t punishment. Marriage isn’t a reward.”

— Jackie Hill Perry, twitter.com