Solitude Quotes

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.

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.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

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.

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

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?

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.

I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

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

No matter how much we love our family and friends, a part of us needs the occasional moment of solitude as a plant needs water. It is the inmost core of each of us that, that part which nobody can define but which we all recognize because it never changes.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.