Solitude Quotes
Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.Johann von Goethe
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
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
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
One can acquire everything in solitude - Except character.Marie Henri Beyle
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
Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.Rainer Maria Rilke
Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.Johan Wolfgang von Goethe
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.Stendhal
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.Harold Bloom, O Magazine, April 2003
Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.Sir Thomas Browne
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
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
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)
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.Joseph Addison
Solitude vivifies isolation kills.Joseph Roux
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.Octavio Paz
Solitude is the playfield of Satan.Vladimir Nabokov
Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.William Orville Douglas
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.Gian Vincenzo Gravina
In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.Henry David Thoreau
Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.Laurence Sterne
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.Henry David Thoreau
He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.Publilius Syrus
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
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
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity.Ralph Waldo Emerson
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.Paul Valery
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.Robert Cecil
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
One can acquire everything in solitude, except character.Marie Stendhal
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.Sir Francis Bacon
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
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
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.Karl Kraus
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 hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - Girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.Percival
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)
