Quotes on Loneliness And Solitude

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.

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

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.

The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Language... 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.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.