Quotes on “solitude”

Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.

For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.