Solitude Quotes

One can acquire everything in solitude - Except character.
Marie Henri Beyle
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The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.
Sir Francis Bacon
Solitude is the playfield of Satan.
Vladimir Nabokov
One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - Girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.
Percival
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johann von Goethe
Marcus aurelius, meditations? book three - one whose chief regard is for his own mind, and...
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
This great misfortune - To be incapable of solitude.
La Bruyere
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)
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
Robert Cecil
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
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
Joseph Addison
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