Solitude Quotes

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?

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.

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

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

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

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.

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.

Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion.

Mass communication, radio, and especially television, have attempted, not without success, to annihilate every possibility of solitude and reflection.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.