Solitude Quotes

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

Harold Bloom, O Magazine, April 2003

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

Johan Wolfgang von Goethe

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

Miguel de Unanimo

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

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

One can acquire everything in solitude, except character.

Marie Stendhal

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Sir Thomas Browne

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Publilius Syrus

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

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

Sir Francis Bacon

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

One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict - Girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.

Percival