Solitude As A Choice Quotes

“Solitude does not necessarily mean living apart from others; rather, it means never living apart from one’s self.

A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”
― Parker J. Palmer, A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life : Welcoming the soul and weaving community in a wounded world

“Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone her pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude.”
― Elizabeth Bowen, The House in Paris

“Sometimes solitude is a real heaven for the tired minds and a marvellous sanctuary for the wounded souls!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“We can combat existential anguish – the unbearable lightness of our being – in a variety of ways. We can choose to work, play, destroy, or create. We can allow a variety of cultural factors or other people to define who we are, or we can create a self-definition. We decide what to monitor in the environment. We regulate how much attention we pay to nature, other people, or the self. We can watch and comment upon current cultural events and worldly happenings or withdraw and ignore the external world. We can drink alcohol, dabble with recreational drugs, play videogames, or watch television, films, and sporting events. We can travel, go on nature walks, camp, fish, and hunt, climb mountains, or take whitewater-rafting trips. We can build, paint, sing, create music, write poetry, or read and write books. We can cook, barbeque, eat fine cuisine at restaurants or go on fasts. We can attend church services, worship and pray, or chose to embrace agnosticism or atheism. We can belong to charitable organizations or political parties. We can actively or passively support or oppose social and ecological causes. We can share time with family, friends, co-workers, and acquaintances or live alone and eschew social intermixing.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“I feel a craving for solitude that sometimes makes me feel as if I will die from the longing.”
― Molly Remer, Walking with Persephone

“Solitude is nothing to fear and it shouldn’t be a motivating factor to find love because if it is, it will set the relationship up to be a co-dependent relationship.”
― Todd Perelmuter

“These words filled me with a sort of melancholy and I was at a loss for an answer, for I felt when I was with him, when I was talking to him - and no doubt it would have been the same with anyone else - none of that happiness which it was possible for me to experience when I was by myself. Alone, at times, I felt surging from the depths of my being one or other ot those impressions which gave me a delicious sense of well-being. But as soon as I was with someone else, as soon as I was talking to a friend, my mind as it were faced about, it was towards this interlocutor and not towards myself that it directed its thoughts, and when they followed this outward course they brought me no pleasure.”
― Marcel Proust

“At some point in life every person encounters haunting feelings of loneliness, because the feeling of being alone and withdrawing deeply into the inner self is part of the human condition. A person might choose to countenance or even cultivate their loneliness and turn the poignant hours of unerring solitude into poetry of their soul.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The only recourse for an escape artist from world affairs is to explore their inner sanctum where hopes, dreams, insecurities, and despair collide.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“It's one of the worst tendencies of human nature to assume that being alone necessarily means being unhappy. Isn't solitude the most profound way to embrace and understand the beauty of life?”
― Sai Pradeep

“Solitude gives us time to master our creative instincts.”
― Avijeet Das

“Social Distancing can create anxiety, loneliness, and depression. A sovereign being views Solitude as time to sand the rust off your vehicle, re-grout your shower, rake the leaves, or renovate yourself. Solitude is meditation in motion.”
― Deborah Bravandt

“I always took to anything that required solitude...it kept me from having to deal with other humans who, for no explainable reason, I didn't like nor trust.”
― Woody Allen, Apropos of Nothing

“How could I ever be lonely when I am with my own best self?”
― Anoir Ou-Chad

“Solitude is the best friend I’ve ever had.”
― Anoir Ou-Chad

“I am seated here
Alone
A thousand miles away
From everybody
But if I have myself
And my sanity
I’ve got nothing else to lose”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, Song of a Nature Lover

“Some of us don't stay long enough in one single place, relationship, journey or country but that does not mean we evade reality or makes us unstable. It simply means, we are not very keen to entertain ourselves, for long periods of time, with the same old same old reflections or shadows on the wall, when aware of the existence of the sun; the price for enlightenment, solitude”
― EfratCybulkiewicz

“Solitude can force you to get married”
― Arif Naseem

“Some see solitude as loneliness. Others see it as a foetal state from which to blunder out into the world. I see it as a breathing space for contemplation and, indeed, breeding space for ideas.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Solitude is better than confinement.”
― Sophia Abid, I Wear a Wig

“Imagine being given the opportunity to take time out of your life, for five whole years. Free of social obligations, free of work commitments. Think how well you would get to know yourself, all that time to consider your past and the choices you had made, to focus on your personal development, to know yourself through and through, to work out your goals in life, your true ambitions.
None of this happened, not to me. Perhaps for someone else it would have been different. Any insight I have gained has been the result of later reflection. Solitude did not breed introspection, quite the reverse. My days were spent outside, immersed in nature, watching.”
― Neil Ansell, Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills

“The silence outside was reflected by a growing silence within. Any interior monologue quietened to a whisper, then faded away entirely.”
― Neil Ansell, Deep Country: Five Years in the Welsh Hills

“Well into his thirties he dreamed of having to go to school as a grown-up, opening his desk, and rummaging inside to hide his face, “suffering over again with increased intensity the shyness and sense of disgrace of my boyhood.” And yet Wallace came to be grateful for what he called his “constitutional shyness,” which he felt had given him long periods of solitary study and a hesitancy over words that led him to avoid the verbosity that marred so many scholarly works.”
― Joe Moran, Shrinking Violets: The Secret Life of Shyness

“Solitude is like a sharpener. It makes you rotate against the blade edge, shaving away your worn surfaces.
After some time, you come out sharp and dandy.”
― Anoir Ou-chad, The Alien

“The world is so special when there is no one in
it.”
― Franciska Soares, They Whisper in my Blood

“Never again shall I sit above the alpine roses in the midday sun, listening to the great silence.”
― Marlen Haushofer, The Wall

“Solitude is not the result of a lack of people, but rather a lack of oneself.”
― Daniel Gumiero

“Sometimes, you don't need anybody around you. You are enough.”
― Bhuwan Thapaliya

“In the quiet of my hollow existence, I yearn for solitude’s tender embrace. Let the world fade like autumn leaves, their voices mere whispers in the wind. Amid forgotten corners, silence echoes my pain. Sunsets weep, staining the sky with sorrow, as I tread the path of sadness. My fragile heart harbors no anger—only a desperate plea: “Leave me alone, leave me alone.”
― Leju Thomas

“My soul steers me into nature's silence”
― Angie Weiland-Crosby