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17 Quotes About Solitude That Will Instantly Soothe Your Stress

Because there's an undeniable power in spending time alone. 
Heidi Priebe
September 9, 2016
“Take a walk in the woods (alone), 
And there you will find all of the questions 
That remain unanswered in your mind.”
— Kaitlyn Dunagan, Nature Is A Potent Remedy
Tagged: Nature, Nature Is A Remedy, Awe Of Nature, positive, Healing, Walking In The Woods, Solitude
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
— Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions
Tagged: Love, Alone, Introversion, Introspection, Being Happy Alone, Healthy Love
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.”
— Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Tagged: Anne Frank, Alone, Lonely, Love, God
“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, Wild
Tagged: Alone, Independence
“Spend your free time the way you like, not the way you think you're supposed to.”
— Susan Cain, Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Tagged: Introvert, Alone, Perspective
“Being alone feels more honest.”
— Kerry Cohen, Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity
Tagged: Alone, honest
“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia
Tagged: Loneliness, Solitude
“If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.
And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.”
— Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra
Tagged: Loneliness, Solitude
“Without solitude, no plant or animal can survive, no soil can remain productive for any length of time, no child can learn about life, no artist can create, no work can grow and be transformed.”
— Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra
Tagged: Loneliness, Solitude
“Loneliness and solitude are two different things. When you are lonely, it is easy to delude yourself into believing that you are on the right path. Solitude is better for us, as it means being alone without feeling lonely.”
— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi
Tagged: Loneliness, Solitude, Silence
“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, Oscar Wilde Collection
Tagged: Oscar Wilde Quotes, Alone, Relationships Ending
“To make the right choices in life you have to get in touch with your soul. To do this, you need to experience solitude - which most people are afraid of because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions.”
— Deepak Chopra, 49 Breathtaking And Life Altering Lessons From Deepak Chopra
Tagged: Solitude, Alone, Introversion, INFP, Soul, Questions, Answers
“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”
— Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
Tagged: Solitude, Alone, Contemplation
“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here.”
— Eve Ensler, I Am An Emotional Creature: The Secret Life Of Girls Around The World
Tagged: Love, Life, Solitude, travel, Adventure, Self-Reliance
“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
— ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays of Montaigne
Tagged: Solitude, Self-Reliance, Independence
“How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Tagged: Solitude, Alone, Independence, Reflection, Introversion
“For now she need not think of anybody. She could be herself, by herself. And that was what now she often felt the need of - to think; well not even to think. To be silent; to be alone. All the being and the doing, expansive, glittering, vocal, evaporated; and one shrunk, with a sense of solemnity, to being oneself, a wedge-shaped core of darkness, something invisible to others... and this self having shed its attachments was free for the strangest adventures.”
— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Tagged: Solitude, Alone