Solitude Quotes

A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

Gian Vincenzo Gravina

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Harold Bloom, O Magazine, April 2003

Solitude is the playfield of Satan.

Vladimir Nabokov

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

Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

William Powell

One can acquire everything in solitude, except character.

Marie Stendhal

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

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

One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - Girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Percival

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

Paul Valery

Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.

Han Suyin

Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.

William Orville Douglas

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

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 Henri Beyle

Talents are best nurtured in solitude; but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Carl Sandburg

Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Johann von Goethe

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

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

Octavio Paz

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

Karl Kraus

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Stendhal

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

Henry David Thoreau

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

In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.

Henry David Thoreau

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