Solitude Quotes
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It 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 Johannes Tillich
It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self - Centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self - Reliance
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.Carl Sandburg
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.Octavio Paz
One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - Girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.Percival
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.Harold Bloom, O Magazine, April 2003
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.Joseph Addison
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.Seneca
Goodbye, goodbye, I hate the word. Solitude has long since turned brown and withered, sitting bitter in my mouth and heavy in my veins.R. M. Grenon
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
Solitude is the playfield of Satan.Vladimir Nabokov
I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.Percy Bysshe Shelley
Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Solitude vivifies isolation kills.Joseph Roux
I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.Brenda Ueland
One can acquire everything in solitude - Except character.Marie Henri Beyle
Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.Miguel de Unanimo
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.Sir Thomas Browne
Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition...Amelia Ba
The power to bring me out of solitude - Or to push me back into it - Had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.Martha Beck, O Magazine, February 2003
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.Stendhal
The great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness, the independence of solitude.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance (essay)
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.Henry David Thoreau
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.Henry David Thoreau
In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee.Lord Byron, Stanzas to Augusta
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.Karl Kraus
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.Sir Francis Bacon
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.William Powell
Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.Johann von Goethe
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.James Russell Lowell
There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.Henry David Thoreau
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great omission in American life is solitude... that zone of time and space, free from the outside pressures, which is the incinerator of the spirit.Marya Mannes
Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without.John Stuart Mill
The most dangerous aspect of present - Day life is the dissolution of the feeling of individual responsibility. Mass solitude has done away with any difference between the internal and the external, between the intellectual and the physical.Eugenio Montale
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.Laurence Sterne
