Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
A. R. Rahman
What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.
A. S. Byatt
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
Abraham Cowley
Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.
Abu Bakr
A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is.
Alan Parker
I owe my solitude to other people.
Alan Watts
Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.
Albert Camus
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert Einstein
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Aldous Huxley
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.
Alfred Russel Wallace
Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
Alice Koller
The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.
Allen Ginsberg
Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.
Sometimes the only kind of innovation comes when you have some solitude; when you step away.
Anand Mahindra
I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude.
Andrew Greeley
But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.
Andy Serkis
Gabriel Garcia Marquez's 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is such a powerful book, and 'Love in the Time of Cholera' is so strangely, brilliantly optimistic.
Anjelica Huston
Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.
Anna Neagle
No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.
But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.
Certain springs are tapped only when we are alone. Women need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves; that firm strand which will be the indispensable center of a whole web of human relationships.
It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.
Girls' strength lies in its diversity, and its members have walked in a lot of borrowed shoes to make it that way. 'Solitude' is a bold and sweet example of inspiration trumping originality.
I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people.
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
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.
Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.
Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
I'm learning not to hold on so tightly to my solitude. It's not an economical way to work. A driver would call it 'white-knuckling.' If you're holding on to the wheel so tightly, it's gonna lock up your driving. Releasing myself from trying to control everything has been part of growing up.
I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.
Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.
Aside from what it teaches you, there is simply the indescribable degree of peace that can be achieved on a sailing vessel at sea. I guess a combination of hard work and the seemingly infinite expanse of the sea - the profound solitude - that does it for me.
I grew up in Michigan. I feel like a lot of my childhood was in solitude, in the woods or making tree forts.
Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.
It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.
I don't like being able to be reached. I enjoy my solitude. Even people having my phone number seems like too much.
In Old Havana, the names of the streets before the revolution provided a glimpse into the city's state of mind. You might have known someone who lived on the corner of Soul and Bitterness, Solitude and Hope, or Light and Avocado.
Everyone has their moments of solitude, difficulties, and vulnerability.
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
I like peace and solitude and silence.
As a model, I didn't have an identity; I was a chameleon, a silent actress. I was an amorphous thing. I wasn't full of personality, I was full of solitude and solemnity. I wasn't a cover-girl type.
Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.
I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.
On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.'
There's just an incredible amount of loneliness as a mother, all this solitude no one really speaks to.
I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.
