Solitude Quotes

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred of mankind.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude.

Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

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

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

But the delights of solitude don't only consist of dreaming. Next in enjoyment, I think, comes planning.

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

From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

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

I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.

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

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.

I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.