Solitude Quotes

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
Friedrich wilhelm nietzsche - out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out...
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
Paul Valery
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
Robert Cecil
Solitude vivifies isolation kills.
Joseph Roux
Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.
Miguel de Unanimo
This great misfortune - To be incapable of solitude.
La Bruyere
Brenda ueland - i learned... that inspiration does not come like...
Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.
William Orville Douglas
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
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
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
James Russell Lowell
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