solitude

1.

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

- Ovid

2.

We never touch but at points.

- Emerson, Ralph Waldo

3.

Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

- Tillich, Paul

4.

Solitude begets whimsies.

- Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley

5.

In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention.

- Weil, Simone

6.

What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?

- Milton, John

7.

The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold.

- Boufflers

8.

I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

- Dunaway, Faye

9.

The fool needs company, the wise solitude.

- Ruckett

10.

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

- Hammarskjold, Dag

11.

An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

- Miller, Henry

12.

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?

- Gaulle, Charles De

13.

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.

- Mathews, William

14.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

- Camus, Albert

15.

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.

- Tillich, Paul

16.

If you would live innocently, seek solitude.

- Syrus, Publilius

17.

Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel --or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.

- Keats, John

18.

Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?

- Hallaj

19.

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness.

- Russell, Bertrand

20.

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

- Dahlberg, Edward