Solitude Quotes

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.

To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

Language... 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.

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.

Solitude is independence.

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

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

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

Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline.

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

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

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.

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

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.