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Solitude Quotes (page 10)

Roland Barthes quote: "I have not a desire but a need for solitude."
I have not a desire but a need for solitude. Roland Barthes
My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful demands of motherhood, chafing sometimes at the way they pulled me away from my separate life, not knowing how to balance them with my unwieldy need for solitude and creative expression. Sue Monk Kidd
Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace..."
This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude. Elizabeth Gilbert
What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath. Edith Wharton
The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved. Theophile Gautier
Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life. Edith Wharton
Ian Fleming quote: "Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin."
Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin. Ian Fleming
Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains, with bright aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her tremendous cataracts, thundering in their solitudes; her boundless plains, waving with spontaneous verdure; her broad, deep rivers, rolling in solemn silence to the ocean; her trackless forests, where vegetation puts forth all its magnificence; her skies, kindling with the magic of summer clouds and glorious sunshine - no, never need an American look beyond... Washington Irving
I wanted to get me a full pack complete with everything necessary to sleep, shelter, eat, cook, in fact a regular kitchen and bedroom right on my back, and go off somewhere and find perfect solitude and look into the perfect emptiness of my mind and be completely neutral from any and all ideas. I intended to pray, too, as my only activity, pray for all living creatures; I saw it was the only decent activity left in the world. To be in some riverbottom somewhere, or in a desert, or in... Jack Kerouac
Friedrich Nietzsche quote: "spirit and his solitude, and for ten years did not weary of..."
spirit and his solitude, and for ten years did not weary of it. But finally he had a change of heart Friedrich Nietzsche
Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote: "In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your..."
In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
She turned her face seaward to gather in an impression of space and solitude, which the vast expanse of water, meeting and melting with the moonlit sky, conveyed to her excited fancy. As she swam she seemed to be reaching out for the unlimited in which to lose herself. Kate Chopin
Marcel Proust quote: "Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the..."
Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude Marcel Proust
Always. At every moment, asleep and awake, during the most sublime and most abject moments, Amaranta thought of Rebeca, because solitude had made a selection in her memory and had burned the dimming piles of nostalgic waste that life had accumulated in her heart, and had purified, magnified, and eternalized the others, the most bitter ones. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Hope wasn't a cottage industry; it was neither a product that she could manufacture like needlepoint samplers nor a substance she could secrete, in her cautious solitude, like a maple tree producing the essence of syrup. Hope was to be found in other people, by reaching out, by taking risks, by opening her fortress heart. Dean Koontz

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