Solitude Quotes
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
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.Octavio Paz
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
One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - Girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.Percival
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.Seneca
But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this Earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. The brilliant Costaguanaro of the boulevards had died from solitude and want of faith in himself and others.Joseph Conrad, Nostromo (on the death of Decoud)
One can acquire everything in solitude - Except character.Marie Henri Beyle
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.Stendhal
I learned... that inspiration does not come like a bolt, nor is it kinetic, energetic striving, but it comes into us slowly and quietly and all the time, though we must regularly and every day give it a little chance to start flowing, prime it with a little solitude and idleness.Brenda Ueland
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
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
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 vivifies isolation kills.Joseph Roux
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.James Russell Lowell
In the desert a fountain is springing, In the wide waste there still is a tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee.Lord Byron, Stanzas to Augusta
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.Sir Thomas Browne
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.Albert Einstein
One can acquire everything in solitude, except character.Marie Stendhal
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.Sir Francis Bacon
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
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.Carl Sandburg
Solitude is the playfield of Satan.Vladimir Nabokov
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.Han Suyin
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
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.Karl Kraus
This great misfortune - To be incapable of solitude.La Bruyere
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
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)
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
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.Joseph Addison
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
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
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.William Powell
He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.Publilius Syrus
Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.William Orville Douglas
