Solitude Quotes

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Sir Francis Bacon
Joseph conrad, nostromo (on the death of decoud) - but the truth was that he died from solitude, the...
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
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
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
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
Miguel de unanimo - only in solitude do we find ourselves and in...
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
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein
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
This great misfortune - To be incapable of solitude.
La Bruyere
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau
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
A bore is a man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.
Gian Vincenzo Gravina