Solitude Quotes
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
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
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.Sir Francis Bacon
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
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
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
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
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
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
This great misfortune - To be incapable of solitude.La Bruyere
He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.Publilius Syrus
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.Joseph Addison
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)
