Top 50 Solitude Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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2. “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

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3. “To live alone is the fate of all great souls.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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4. “Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.”

— C.G. Jung

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5. “Solitude matters, and for some people, it’s the air they breathe.”

— Susan Cain

6. “To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. To do 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

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7. “Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.”

— Nikola Tesla

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8. “It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.”

— Marilyn Monroe

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9. “The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.”

— Henrik Ibsen

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10. “And all I loved, I loved alone.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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11. “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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12. “All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic silence. And this is a pretty wonderful thing. No matter what anybody else says.”

— Haruki Murakami

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13. “Without great solitude no serious work is possible.”

— Pablo Picasso

14. “Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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15. “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

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16. “I’m all alone, but I’m not lonely.”

— Haruki Murakami

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17. “He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind – that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free.”

— Swami Vivekananda

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18. “I'm an introvert. I love being by myself, love being outdoors, love taking a long walk with my dogs and looking at the trees, flowers, the sky.”

— Audrey Hepburn

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19. “We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.”

— Orson Welles

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20. “All great and precious things are lonely.”

— John Steinbeck

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21. “Great eagles fly alone; great lions hunt alone; great souls walk alone-alone with God. Such loneliness is hard to endure, and impossible to enjoy unless God accompanies them. Prophets are lone men; they walk alone, pray alone and God makes them alone.”

— Leonard Ravenhill

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22. “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.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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23. “If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.”

— Paulo Coelho

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24. “Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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25. “The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.”

— Voltaire

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26. “The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.”

— Aldous Huxley

27. “Keep close to Nature’s heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.”

— John Muir

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28. “Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude – these are everything.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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29. “The strong man is strongest when alone.”

— Friedrich Schiller

30. “He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

31. “Come into the silence of solitude, and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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32. “I’m not anti-social. I’m just not social.”

— Woody Allen

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33. “Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.”

— Hermann Hesse

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34. “Whenever you are alone, remind yourself that God has sent everyone else away so that there is only you and Him.”

— Rumi

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35. “When you can bear your own silence, you are free.”

— Mooji

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36. “Silence and solitude, the soul’s best friends.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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37. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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38. “Spend some time alone every day.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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39. “In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence.”

— Mother Teresa

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40. “You are all searching for the silence of the mountain. But you’re looking for something outside. This silence is accessible to you right now, inside the center of your own being.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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41. “All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.”

— Blaise Pascal

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42. “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

— Blaise Pascal

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43. “The speech of God is silence. His Word is solitude.”

— Thomas Merton

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44. “My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude.”

— Warsan Shire

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45. “Leave my loneliness unbroken.”

— Edgar Allan Poe

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46. “It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

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47. “I restore myself when I’m alone.”

— Marilyn Monroe

48. “Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.”

— Ernest Hemingway

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49. “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

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50. “Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.”

— David Whyte