Best Solitude Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“It's the solitude that slays you. Maybe because you'd expected ruin to arrive in a grander and more romantic form.”

“The boy was lying, fast asleep, on a rude bed upon the floor; so pale with anxiety, and sadness, and the closeness of his prison, that he looked like death; not death as it shews in shroud and coffin, but in the guise it wears when life has just departed; when a young and gentle spirit has, but an instant, fled to Heaven: and the gross air of the world has not had time to breathe upon the changing dust it hallowed.”

“I lay awake listening to the rain, and at first it was as pleasant to my ear and my mind as it had long been desired; but before I fell asleep it had become a majestic and finally a terrible thing, instead of a sweet sound and symbol. It was accusing and trying me and passing judgment. Long I lay still under the sentence, listening to the rain, and then at last listening to words which seemed to be spoken by a ghostly double beside me. He was muttering: The all-night rain puts out summer like a torch. In the heavy, black rain falling straight from invisible, dark sky to invisible, dark earth the heat of summer is annihilated, the splendour is dead, the summer is gone. The midnight rain buries it away where it has buried all sound but its own. I am alone in the dark still night, and my ear listens to the rain piping in the gutters and roaring softly in the trees of the world. Even so will the rain fall darkly upon the grass over the grave when my ears can hear it no more…”

“With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything...”

“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening. She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man’s land between life and death, sleeping and waking.”

“Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude”

“How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!”

“Yes, I'm fine; yes, I'm always fine.”

“Four billion people on this earth”

“Thus weary of the world, away she hies,”

“For I have hedged me with a thorny hedge,”

“I am a free soul, singing my heart out by myself no matter where I go and I call strangers my friends because I learn things and find ways to fit them into my own world. I hear what people say, rearrange it, take away and tear apart until it finds value in my reality and there I make it work. I find spaces in between the cracks and cuts where it feels empty”

“Poems can get”

“A pine tree standeth lonely”

“I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss?”

“..i spill into”

“When from our better selves we have too long”

“I shivered in those”

“Loneliness clarifies. Here silence stands”

“The Old Poets Of China”

“I sat, a solitary man,”

“I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough.”

“my dear,”

“I want my own will, and I want”

“What's a rainy day”

“Uncontradicting solitude”

“O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell,”

“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts;”

“I am too alone in the world, and yet not alone enough”

“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,”