Solitude Quotes

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

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

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

Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

Solitude vivifies isolation kills.

Joseph Roux

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

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Albert Einstein

Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him.

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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

Harold Bloom, O Magazine, April 2003

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Sir Francis Bacon

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 love tranquil solitude And such society As is quiet, wise, and good.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Solitude is the playfield of Satan.

Vladimir Nabokov