Motivational Quotes
Solitude
The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death.
Best Quotes about Solitude
I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable as solitude.
Thoreau, Henry David
Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.
Johnson, Samuel
In solitude, where we are least alone.
Byron, Lord
The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold.
Boufflers
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.
Wordsworth, William
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
We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.
Dahlberg, Edward
Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.
Kundera, Milan
Violent passions are formed in solitude. In the busy world no object has time to make a deep impression.
Home, Henry
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Carlyle, Thomas
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Thoreau, Henry David
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
There is convincing evidence that the search for solitude is not a luxury but a biological need. Just as humans posses a herding instinct that keeps us close to others most of the time, we also have a conflicting drive to seek out solitude. If the distance between ourselves and others becomes too great, we experience isolation and alienation, yet if the proximity to others becomes too close, we feel smothered and trapped.
Kottler, Jeffrey
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
Quincey, Thomas De
The right to be alone -- the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized man.
Brandeis, Louis D.
A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
Landor, Walter Savage
In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.
Mathews, William
Solitude is un-American.
Jong, Erica
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
An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Miller, Henry
This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude.
Bruyere, Jean De La
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Huxley, Aldous
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
Euripides
A writer who writes, I am alone... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.
Blanchot, Maurice
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.
Mann, Thomas
You have already failed if you need a lot of inspectors.
A man by himself is in bad company.
Hoffer, Eric
Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
Smith, Sydney
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.
Cowley, Abraham
The mark of solitude is silence, as speech is the mark of community. Silence and speech have the same inner correspondence and difference as do solitude and community. One does not exist without the other. Right speech comes out of silence, and right silence comes out of speech.
Bonhoeffer, Dietrich
Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.
Ovid
We never touch but at points.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death.
Celine, Louis-Ferdinand
I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.
Thoreau, Henry David
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'Tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou findst there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, he breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind.
Herbert, George
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
Herbert, George
Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
Camus, Albert
Solitude begets whimsies.
Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley
May God be gracious to each lonely one who walks in silence towards the setting sun.
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
Renard, Jules
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
Sterne, Laurence
The best thinking has been done in solitude.
Edison, Thomas A.
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
Chekhov, Anton
Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict -- girding up its armor to meet the most insidious foe.
Percival, Lord
Two Paradises t'were in one, to live in Paradise alone.
Marvell, Andrew
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
To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self.
Mabie, Hamilton
Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character.
Lowell, James Russell
Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.
Cioran, E. M.
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