Solitude Quotes

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

Miguel de Unanimo

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

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

Percy Bysshe Shelley

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Sir Francis Bacon

One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Three

Solitude vivifies isolation kills.

Joseph Roux

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, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without.

John Stuart Mill

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

James Russell Lowell

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

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

Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson