Solitude Quotes
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A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
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She who dwells with me whom I have loved with such communion, that no place on earth can ever be solitude to me.
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You get good at being by yourself and you're condemned to a life sentence of solitude. You think, "Wait a minute! I should have been a tap dancer or something". But in my life, I feel like I take my stories to people orally.
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One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
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Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.
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Here I am, a wild beast cut off from his companions.
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In a cool solitude of trees Where leaves and birds a music spin, Mind that was weary is at ease, New rhythms in the soul begin.
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Solitude is fine when you are at peace with yourself and have something definite to do.
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It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.
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. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.
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More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.
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I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night / With some friend that has the wit.
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Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.
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But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.
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Imagination is strong in a man when that particular function of the brain which enables him to observe is roused to activity without any necessary excitement of the sense. Accordingly, we find that imagination is active just in proportion as our sense are not excited by external objects. A long period of solitude, whether in prison or in a sick room; quiet, twilight, darkness-these are the things that promote its activity; and under their influence it comes into play of itself.
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'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.
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I had as lief have been myself alone.
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In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.
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The most important education you get is your own - the one you learn in solitude.
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I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.
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I would paint a portrait which would bring the tears, had I canvas for it, and the scene should be -- solitude, and the figures -- solitude -- and the lights and shades, each a solitude.
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It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.
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Tears do not burn except in solitude.
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Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
