Quotes on Solitude

• Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.”  Says R.W. Emerson
• In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion.”
  Albert Camus
• “A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”
  ― Arthur Schopenhauer, Essays and Aphorisms
• The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
  ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
• Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.”
  ― Rollo May, Man's Search For Himself
• “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 Wave
• “How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?”
  ― Mary Doria Russell, Children of God