Quotes about solitude

Not everyone will understand your journey. That's okay. You're here to live your life, not to make everyone understand.

If you want to go for a run, go for a run, don't look for company. Sooner or later, on your fifth run or your twentieth, like minded people will find you themselves.

You are here to understand yourself, not to be understood.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the vexation of thinking.

The cost of a thing is the amount of life it requires to be exchanged for it.

The desert grows: woe to him in whom deserts hide.

All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

We are as much as we see. Faith is sight and knowledge. The hands only serve the eyes.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside dreams; who looks inside awakes.

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself.

Each man had only one genuine vocation — to find the way to himself.

I realize today that nothing in the world is more distasteful to a man than to take the path that leads to himself.

I wanted only to try to live in accord with the promptings which came from my true self. Why was that so very difficult?

Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

A friend is one soul abiding in two bodies.

Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, What! You too? I thought I was the only one.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom.

When we read, another person thinks for us: we merely repeat his mental process.

Hell is other people.

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

I am a citizen of the world.