Solitude Quotes
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
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
Love from one being to another can only be that two solitudes come nearer, recognize and protect and comfort each other.Han Suyin
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 is the playfield of Satan.Vladimir Nabokov
One can acquire everything in solitude - Except character.Marie Henri Beyle
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
Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.Miguel de Unanimo
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, the safeguard of mediocrity.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
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
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.Octavio Paz
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.Sir Francis Bacon
I love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.Percy Bysshe Shelley
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.Henry David Thoreau
Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.William Powell
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)
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
This great misfortune - To be incapable of solitude.La Bruyere
Talents are best nurtured in solitude character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.Johann von Goethe
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.Karl Kraus
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.Joseph Addison
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
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
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
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
In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.Henry David Thoreau
One can acquire everything in solitude, except character.Marie Stendhal
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
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.Paul Valery
Solitude is the beginning of all freedom.William Orville Douglas
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
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)
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
