Solitude Quotes

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

One can acquire everything in solitude - Except character.

Marie Henri Beyle

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Carl Sandburg

Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Johann von Goethe

Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.

Laurence Sterne

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.

Robert Cecil

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Harold Bloom, O Magazine, April 2003

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

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

This great misfortune - To be incapable of solitude.

La Bruyere