Solitude's Wisdom: Inspiring 50+ Sit Alone Quotes Collection
- ELA
- Jan 13, 2024
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Sit Alone Quotes
Here are 50 quotes about sitting alone:
1. "Sometimes, you need to be alone. Not to be lonely, but to enjoy your free time being yourself." – Anonymous
2. "The best thinking has been done in solitude." – Thomas Edison
3. "I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person." – Oscar Wilde
4. "Solitude is the place of purification." – Martin Buber
5. "In the silence of solitude, you will find the clarity you seek." – Anonymous
6. "Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone." – Paul Tillich
7. "The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone." – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
8. "There is a certain strength in being alone." – Heather Duffy Stone
9. "Sometimes you have to stand alone just to make sure you still can." – Anonymous
10. "Solitude is where I place my chaos to rest and awaken my inner peace." – Nikki Rowe
11. "You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with." – Wayne Dyer
12. "The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself." – Michel de Montaigne
13. "Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice." – Alice Koller
14. "My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude." – Warsan Shire
15. "The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulate the creative mind." – Albert Einstein
16. "Alone, we can do so little; together we can do so much." – Helen Keller
17. "I restore myself when I’m alone." – Marilyn Monroe
18. "Sometimes, you find yourself in the middle of nowhere, and sometimes, in the middle of nowhere, you find yourself." – Anonymous
19. "Solitude gives birth to the original in us." – Thomas Mann
20. "In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion." – Albert Camus
21. "Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was." – Cheryl Strayed
22. "If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself." – Paulo Coelho
23. "There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, there is a rapture on the lonely shore." – Lord Byron
24. "I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." – Henry David Thoreau
25. "Solitude is the richness of self." – May Sarton
26. "To be left alone is the most precious thing one can ask of the modern world." – Anthony Burgess
27. "It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
28. "The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness." – Norman Cousins
29. "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. "The best part about being alone is that you really don’t have to answer to anybody. You do what you want." – Justin Timberlake
31. "The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude." – Aldous Huxley
32. "Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine." – Honoré de Balzac
33. "Alone time is when I distance myself from the voices of the world so I can hear my own." – Oprah Winfrey
34. "In solitude, the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself." – Laurence Sterne
35. "A man can be himself only so long as he is alone." – Arthur Schopenhauer
36. "To live alone is the fate of all great souls." – Arthur Schopenhauer
38. "Without great solitude no serious work is possible." – Pablo Picasso
39. "Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are." – Robert Cecil
40. "Solitude, the joy of being alone, is spiritual light." – John Muir
41. "Sometimes the worst place you can be is in your own head." – Anonymous
42. "Solitude is not the absence of company, but the moment when our soul is free to speak to us and help us decide what to do with our life." – Paulo Coelho
43. "Being alone has a power that very few people can handle." – Steven Aitchison
44. "The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself." – Charlotte Brontë
45. "Alone, by herself, she built the kingdom that she wanted." – R.H. Sin
46. "Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than words." – Henri Nouwen
47. "The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself." – Michel de Montaigne
48. "The quieter you become, the more you can hear." – Ram Dass
49. "The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone." – Henrik Ibsen
50. "Sometimes you need to take a break from everyone and spend time alone to experience, appreciate, and love yourself." – Robert Tew
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