Welcome to our post on solitude quotes that describe how wonderful being alone with yourself can be! Enjoying solitude is something that comes naturally to me and I am really grateful for that.
Although people may confuse solitude with being lonely, it is far from that. Solitude is the time when I feel most free, absolutely limitless. It gives me time to think, do what I enjoy, or just be a human!
To enjoy being alone it is important to build a healthy relationship with yourself so that it doesn’t become uncomfortable, as it does for so many people.
I hope that with these quotes about solitude, you will find inspiration and also curiosity to learn more about it. Here’s a video that you can watch to learn more about the power of solitude:
I wish you a happy alone time. May you always have time for yourself. Here are your solitude quotes:
Solitude Quotes
“Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.”
― Joseph Roux
“Solitude is independence.”
― Hermann Hesse
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”
― May Sarton
“Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.”
― Fred Rogers
“In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone.”
― Rollo May, Man’s Search for Himself
“By all means, use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear.”
― George Herbert
“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
“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 Kafka
“In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.”
― Ayn Rand
“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“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
“I live in solitude. I have need of solitude to do the next day’s work. I can’t be to parties where the noise tires me. I can’t speak on the telephone. I must have complete calm.”
― Yves Saint Laurent
“When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death — ourselves.”
― Eda LeShan
Inspirational Quotes About Being Alone
“I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“A little while alone in your room will prove more valuable than anything else that could ever be given you.”
― Rumi
“Solitude, whether endured or embraced, is a necessary gateway to original thought.”
― Jane Hirshfield
“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
― Oscar Wilde
“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“I’ve never been lonely. I like myself. I’m the best form of entertainment I have.”
― Charles Bukowski
“When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.”
― Gertrude Stein
“I don’t mind being alone. I just don’t want to be part of the crowd.”
― Naval Ravikant
“I think it’s a good thing to do (to be alone); you get to know yourself, and I think that’s the most important thing in the whole world.”
― Robert Paul Smith
“I’ve often been with someone and wished I was alone. I’ve never been alone and wished I was not.”
― Derek Sivers
“Give solitude a chance. You’ve got nothing to lose. And your life to gain back.”
― Joshua Becker
“To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.”
― Joseph Krutch
“Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.”
― Robert Cecil
“Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.”
― Carl Sandburg
“In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”
― Albert Camus
“Solitude is creativity’s best friend, and solitude is refreshment for our souls.”
― Naomi Judd
“Although the wish for solitude can be a denial of dependence, a capacity for solitude may be its fullest acknowledgment.”
― Adam Phillips
“The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.”
― Albert Einstein
Quotes About Being Alone and Happy
“In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen
“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
“Solitude is the strength of being alone. It’s where we become our best company.”
― Jay Shetty
“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”
― C.S. Lewis
“It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.”
― Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.”
― Paul Brunton
“Loneliness is to be avoided, solitude is to be sought.”
― Tom Hanks
“Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.”
― Henry David Thoreau
“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”
― Winston Churchill
“I lived in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in maturity.”
― Albert Einstein
“How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?”
― Mary Doria Russell
“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
“One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I myself am best when least in company.”
― William Shakespeare
“In solitude, listen to your heart, for at that moment, it speaks nothing but the truth.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
― Maya Angelou
“Your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it, you will find all your paths.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
― Michel de Montaigne
“Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.”
― Miguel de Unamuno
“I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.”
― Elayne Boosler
“Spend some time alone. There’s so much you don’t know about yourself.”
― Thibaut
“The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”
― Aldous Huxley
“Don’t fear solitude: If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself. But don’t get too attached to it – it may become an addiction.”
― Paulo Coelho
“I try to factor solitude into my life because more and more, that’s becoming a very precious and rare commodity.”
― Robyn Davidson
“The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.”
― Epicurus
“Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.”
― Lao Tzu
“In solitude one finds only what he carries there with him.”
― Juan Ramon Jimenez
“Imagine a temple inside your mind, a haven from the chaos of the world. Visit often.”
― Marienne Williamson
“The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.”
― Albert Einstein
“Solitude is a lost art in these days of ultra-connectedness.”
― Leo Babauta
“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer
“To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.”
― Jeanne Moreau
“I have always loved the desert. One sits down on a desert sand dune, sees nothing, hears nothing. Yet through the silence something throbs, and gleams.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life.”
― Paolo Coelho
“Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.”
― Liv Tyler
“He who understands humanity seeks solitude.”
― Ali ibn Abi Talib
“Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.”
― Lao Tzu
“Solitude, in these days as much as ever, is an absolute necessity.”
― Leo Babauta
“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
“Life is an island in an ocean of solitude and seclusion.”
― Khalil Gibran
“Solitude is like punctuation. A paragraph without periods and commas would be exhausting to read.”
― Arnie Kozak
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Blaise Pascal
“Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.”
― James Russell Lowell
“When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.”
― William Wordsworth
“They simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?”
― Charles Bukowski
“Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.”
― Edward Gibbon
“You don’t need to be a monk to find solitude, nor do you need to be a hermit to enjoy it.”
― Leo Babauta
“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.”
― Honore de Balzac
“Solitude is a good place to visit but a poor play to stay.”
― Josh Billings
“Solitude is dangerous. It’s very addictive. It becomes a habit after you realise how peaceful and calm it is. It’s like you don’t want to deal with people anymore because they drain your energy.”
― Jim Carrey
“In solitude I find my answers.”
― Kristen Butler
“Solitude is a kind of freedom.”
― Umberto Eco
“Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.”
― Marty Rubin
Enjoying Solitude Quotes
“Solitude is the place of purification.”
― Martin Buber
“Solitude is a catalyst for innovation.”
― Susan Cain
“Without great solitude no serious work is possible.”
― Pablo Picasso
“Once you know how to take care of yourself, company becomes an option.”
― Keanu Reeves
“I restore myself when I am alone.”
― Marilyn Monroe
“Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.”
― A. R. Rahman
“It’s an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That’s always been a tug of war for me.”
― Jodie Foster
“Solitude is where I place my chaos to rest and awaken my inner peace.”
― Nikki Rowe
“Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to do, something to amuse themselves with, something to judge.”
― Paolo Coelho
“My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“I chide society, I embrace solitude, and yet I am not so ungrateful as not to see the wise, the lovely and the noble-minded, as from time to time they pass my gate.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Solitude is the soul’s holiday.”
― Katrina Kenison
“Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.”
― Paul Brunton
