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.

Billy Campbell

Work Peace You

Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.

A. R. Rahman

Your You Voice

What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.

A. S. Byatt

Write Well T

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

Knowledge World Who

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

Abu Bakr

Society Than T

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

Tin T Solitude

I owe my solitude to other people.

Alan Watts

T Solitude People

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

Work Nature Life

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Albert Einstein

Life Tony Ton

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Albert Einstein

Youth You Years

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

Albert Einstein

Young You UN

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

Aldous Huxley

War Religion Power

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

Alfred Russel Wallace

Space Life Death

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

War Men Alone

The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.

Allen Ginsberg

Love World Weight

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.

Allen Ginsberg

War Art World

Sometimes the only kind of innovation comes when you have some solitude; when you step away.

Anand Mahindra

Time You Way

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

Used Use Us

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

Relationship Men Your

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

Time Power Love

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Anna Neagle

T Solitude San

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.

Anna Neagle

But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.

Anna Neagle

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.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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.

Anthony Fantano

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.

Anthony Hopkins

Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude.

Aphra Behn

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Aristotle

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

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

Reading takes solitude and it takes focus.

Augusten Burroughs

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Barbara De Angelis

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.

Ben Foster

I guess part of the hit-man appeal is the solitude. Everybody is lured to the idea of the solitary life.

Bill Nighy

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.

Bill Viola

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.

Billy Campbell

I grew up in Michigan. I feel like a lot of my childhood was in solitude, in the woods or making tree forts.

Borns

Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.

Bradley Chicho

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.

Brendan Myers

I don't like being able to be reached. I enjoy my solitude. Even people having my phone number seems like too much.

Brie Larson

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.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

Everyone has their moments of solitude, difficulties, and vulnerability.

Cai Guo-Qiang

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Carl Sandburg

I like peace and solitude and silence.

Carla Bruni

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.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

Caroline Knapp

I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.

Caroline Knapp

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.'

Caroline Knapp

There's just an incredible amount of loneliness as a mother, all this solitude no one really speaks to.

Catherine Reitman

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

Catie Curtis