Solitude was my only consolation – deep, dark, deathlike solitude. – Mary Shelley Frankenstein, Chapter 9. Victor retreats into himself after the deaths brought about by his monster.
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss. – Guru Nanak
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The country is more of a wilderness, more of a wild solitude, in the winter than in the summer. The wild comes out. The urban, the cultivated, is hidden or negatived. – John Burroughs
We talk of communing with Nature, but ’tis with ourselves we commune… Nature furnishes the conditions – the solitude – and the soul furnishes the entertainment. – John Burroughs
I reflected much on that vain desire, which had pursued me for so many years, of being in solitude in order to be a Christian. I have now, thought I, solitude enough; but am I therefore the nearer being a Christian? Not if Jesus Christ be the model of Christianity. – John Wesley
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
If you have a trust in and an expectation of your own solitude, everything that you need to know will be revealed to you. – John O’Donohue Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom.
My favorite books are actually very complicated – ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’, ‘Ulysses’. – James Patterson
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
Although I’ve made notes for things and even written synopses sitting in trains or on park benches, for the complete composition of things I need absolute solitude, preferably an empty house. – James Salter
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. – Albert Einstein
But the delights of solitude don’t only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning. – Anna Neagle
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 like is the idea of a group, even if it’s just two people – the idea of solitude within a group. – Claire Denis
Look at Austen. In her novels, you get a dance, followed by an encounter, followed by a letter, then a period of solitude. No flashbacks and no backstory. Let’s have no more back story! – Colm Toibin
