Solitude Quotes

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

Gian Vincenzo Gravina

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

Karl Kraus

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

Octavio Paz

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

Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

Sir Thomas Browne

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

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Publilius Syrus

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

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

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 beginning of all freedom.

William Orville Douglas

Only in solitude do we find ourselves and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

Miguel de Unanimo