Solitude Quotes

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.

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

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.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

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.

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.

During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me.

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

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

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.

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.

Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines.

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

The conductor's stand is not a continent of power, but rather an island of solitude.

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.