Solitude Quotes

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
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
Publilius syrus - he who lives in solitude may make his own laws....
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Harold Bloom, O Magazine, April 2003
I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Joseph conrad, nostromo (on the death of decoud) - but the truth was that he died from solitude, the...
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
One can acquire everything in solitude, except character.
Marie Stendhal
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
James Russell Lowell
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
Joseph Addison
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.
Han Suyin
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
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Sir Francis Bacon
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.
Laurence Sterne
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.
Rainer Maria Rilke
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.
Paul Valery
One can acquire everything in solitude - Except character.
Marie Henri Beyle
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
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.
Sir Thomas Browne
Solitude is the playfield of Satan.
Vladimir Nabokov
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
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone.
Thomas De Quincey
Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.
Erica Jong
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein
Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johann von Goethe
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
Robert Cecil
Solitude vivifies isolation kills.
Joseph Roux
In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.
Henry David Thoreau
This great misfortune - To be incapable of solitude.
La Bruyere
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.
William Powell
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
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
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Stendhal
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
Gian Vincenzo Gravina
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Carl Sandburg
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
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau
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
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
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