Most entrepreneurs will tell you that starting and running your own business is a lonely experience. It’s just you, the computer screen, and a lot of late nights. While this may be true, it doesn’t mean you have to go through it alone. Check out these solitude quotes to help you power through those tough times. With their words of wisdom, you’ll soon discover that loneliness is nothing more than an illusion.

The best solitude quotes

1. It was either the chaos of a crowd of thoughts or the silence of solitude… nothing in between.. — Sanhita Baruah

2. Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself. — Thomas Browne

3. I have not a desire but a need for solitude. — Roland Barthes

4. In solitude every fear, every longing, becomes exaggerated. — Marty Rubin

5. I always ask myself. Who was it that dyed my heart black, and left a spot for it to grow out from it? — Solitude’s Friend

6. Delicious days ahead for solitude and writing and, oh yes, the holiday meal with family. Live with my characters until term starts in 2012! — Stella Atrium

7. We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. — Salvatore Quasimodo

8. I need solitude for my writing — not ‘like a hermit’–that wouldn’t be enough–but like a dead man.

9. To be a member of such a crowd … is not much to be far removed from solitude — the freedom of everyone is assured by the freedom to which everyone else lays claim.

10. 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

11. We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. — Salvatore Quasimodo

12. Whatever problem you have can be solved through solitude. — Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

13. Loneliness is a desert. Solitude an oasis. — Ted Agon, The Human Key Condensed

14. Consider A MoveThe steady time of being unknown, in solitude, without friends, is not a steadiness that sustains.I hear your voice waver on the — Michael Ryan, New and Selected Poems

15. Consider A MoveThe steady time of being unknown, in solitude, without friends, is not a steadiness that sustains.I hear your voice waver on the — Michael Ryan, New and Selected Poems

16. This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours! — William Wilberforce

17. I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul. — Thomas Merton

18. Jamie enjoyed solitude, but loneliness was a constant ache. — Sidney Sheldon, Master of the Game

19. Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed. — R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree

20. Solitude was a spell that freed her. — Robert Crais

21. Marriage is the ultimate solitude with minimal privacy. — Nelson Rodrigues

22. Sometimes solitude is a real heaven for the tired minds and a marvellous sanctuary for the wounded souls! — Mehmet Murat ildan

23. Holy intimacy is fostered with the marriage to two commitments: one to sitting in quiet solitude with the inner Self — the other to sitting in rapt attention with one’s mortal Beloved

24. How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important. — Parker Posey

25. Everyday, spend some time in solitude to repair the damages done by the crowds! — Mehmet Murat ildan

26. I need solitude. I need space. I need air. I need the empty fields round me; and my legs pounding along roads; and sleep; and animal existence. — Virginia Woolf

27. No solitude, no birth. — Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

28. In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls. — Nikos Kazantzakis

29. There is a truth in everyone that lies deep within — finding that truth can take a life time or just a moment in solitude.

30. Language has created the word ‘loneliness’ to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word ‘solitude’ to express the glory of being alone. — Paul Tillich, The Eternal Now

31. Holy intimacy is fostered with the marriage to two commitments: one to sitting in quiet solitude with the inner Self — the other to sitting in rapt attention with one’s mortal Beloved

32. Great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude. — Sigmund Freud

33. Solitude always gives birth to something. — Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

34. No solitude, no birth. — Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

35. Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it. — Robinson Jeffers

36. Life comes in clusters clusters of solitude then clusters when there is hardly time to breathe. — May Sarton

37. We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. — Salvatore Quasimodo

38. It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion — it is easy in solitude to live after our own

39. To be a member of such a crowd … is not much to be far removed from solitude — the freedom of everyone is assured by the freedom to which everyone else lays claim.

40. I begin to be impatient of solitude–to feel its draperies hang sweltering, unwholesome about me. — Virginia Woolf, The Waves

41. My alone feels so good, I’ll only have you if you’re sweeter than my solitude. — Warsan Shire

42. For her a day of pampering meant comic books, black liquorice, serious exercise, veggie curry and, above all, solitude. — Salla Simukka, As Red as Blood

43. A time of solitude will always produce some fruits. — Sunday Adelaja, How To Become Great Through Time Conversion: Are you wasting time, spending time or investing time?

44. In order to be open to creativity, one must have the capacity for constructive use of solitude. One must overcome the fear of being alone. — Rollo May

45. Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it. — Robinson Jeffers

46. Solitude appeared to me as the only fit state of man. — Walter Benjamin

47. Solitude, the joy of being alone, stems from, as well as promotes, a state of maturity and inner richness. — Neel Burton, Heaven and Hell: The Psychology of the Emotions

48. Sometimes solitude is a real heaven for the tired minds and a marvellous sanctuary for the wounded souls! — Mehmet Murat ildan

49. Solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot — every choice is a world made new for the chosen.

50. To do much clear thinking a person must arrange for regular periods of solitude when they can concentrate and indulge the imagination without distraction. — Thomas A

Conclusion

We hope these quotes have inspired you to take stock of your own feelings and how to embrace solitude in a meaningful way. Although it can be uncomfortable at first, it’s an important part of self-reflection and growth. Learning to enjoy your own company is ultimately a liberating experience that can bring you closer to understanding yourself.