solitude Quotes

I often wake up in the night, and I like to have something to think about.

It is after all the greatest art to limit and isolate oneself.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

I'm the type who'd be happy not going anywhere as long as I was sure I knew exactly what was happening at the places I wasn't going to. I'm the type who'd like to sit home and watch every party that I'm invited to on a monitor in my bedroom.

Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.