Solitude Quotes (267 Quotes)
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- Solitude was corrupting me. I needed company and care.
(Vladimir Nabokov, "Lolita")
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- Solitude is the playfield of Satan.
(Vladimir Nabokov, "Pale Fire")
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- And there is a dignity in people; a solitude; even between husband and wife a gulf; and that one must respect, thought Clarissa, watching him open the door; for one would not part with it oneself, or take it, against his will, from one's husband, without losing one's independence, one's self-respect-something, after all, priceless.
(Virginia Woolf, "Mrs. Dalloway")
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- He gazes through sunlight's buttresses, back down the refectory at the others, wallowing in their plenitude of bananas, thick palatals of their hunger lost somewhere in the stretch of morning between them and himself. A hundred miles of it, so suddenly. Solitude, even among the meshes of this war, can when it wishes so take him by the blind gut and touch, as now, possessively. Pirate's again some other side of a window, watching strangers eat breakfast.
(Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow")
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- Throwing herself into learning helped Miri ignore the painful chill of solitude around her.
(Shannon Hale, "Princess Academy")
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- Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment's solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest.
(Oscar Wilde, "The Importance of Being Earnest")
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- Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay.
(Pat Conroy, "The Prince of Tides")
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- This pause in time, within time ... When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one's own, one's certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothing in comparison to the release and openness and fluency one shares with another, in close companionship ...
(Muriel Barbery, "The Elegance of the Hedgehog")
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- I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a new kind of distress and something that resembled true feeling into my solitude.
(Louis-Ferdinand Céline, "Journey to the End of the Night")
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- She groped forward, hands and feet, in search of darkness, distance and solitude.
(Kristin Cashore, "Graceling")
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- She had dreamed some brilliant dreams during the past winter and now they lay in the dust around her. In her present mood of self-disgust, she could not immediately begin dreaming again. And she discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms.
(L.M. Montgomery, "Anne of the Island")
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- You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts; And when you can no longer dwell in the solitude of your heart you live in your lips, and sound is a diversion and a pastime. And in much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.
(Kahlil Gibran, "The Prophet")
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- 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, "The Awakening")
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- The voice of the sea is seductive, never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander in abysses of solitude.
(Kate Chopin, "The Awakening")
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- Solitude sometimes is best society.
(John Milton, "Paradise Lost")
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