Solitude Quotes
I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.Percy Bysshe Shelley
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.Gian Vincenzo Gravina
In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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
Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the real world since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.Giacomo Leopardi
One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - Girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.Percival
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
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
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.Han Suyin
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.Sir Francis Bacon
There are days when solitude, for someone my age, 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.Colette
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.Marie Henri Beyle
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 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)
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.Henry David Thoreau
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.Sir Thomas Browne
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.Miguel de Unanimo
Solitude is the playfield of Satan.Vladimir Nabokov
Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.Johann von Goethe
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.Harold Bloom, O Magazine, April 2003
One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Three
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
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
This great misfortune - To be incapable of solitude.La Bruyere
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.Albert Einstein
But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)
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
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
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
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.Carl Sandburg
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.Laurence Sterne
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
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.William Powell
