Solitude Quotes
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I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.
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Egotism erects its center in itself; love places it out of itself in the axis of the universal whole. Love aims at unity, egotismat solitude. Love is the citizen ruler of a flourishing republic, egotism is a despot in a devastated creation.
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When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.
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More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.
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Give me solitude, give me Nature, give me again O Nature your primal sanities!
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There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.
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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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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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For oft, when on my couch I lie in vacant or in pensive mood they flash upon that inward eye which is the bliss of solitude
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You are an individual, and you came here on your own as a child, and you will die on your own. The fact that you may live in a community or with your family does not change the solitude of your spiritual journey. By cluttering your life with many things, you soon lose sight of who you are and what you came for.
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Deliberately seeking solitude-quality time spent away from family and friends-may seem selfish. It is not. Solitude is as necessary for our creative spirits to develop and flourish as are sleep and food for our bodies to survive.
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Solitude gives you the ideas and the motivation to make you want to collaborate.
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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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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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Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul Seek solitude.
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One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
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Many people spend the ends of their lives alone, and probably a lot of years in the middle of their lives, and I'm glad I had the opportunity to experience the rewards of solitude.
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Now therefore, that my mind is free from all cares, and that I have obtained for myself assured leisure in peaceful solitude, I shall apply myself seriously and freely to the general destruction of all my former opinions.
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There is nothing more terrible, I learned, than having to face the objects of a dead man. Things are inert: that have meaning only in function of the life that makes use of them. When that life ends, the things change, even though they remain the same. […] they say something to us, standing there not as objects but as remnants of thought, of consciousness, emblems of the solitude in which a man comes to make decisions about himself.
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Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.
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I had as lief have been myself alone.
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If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the love of children. No circumstance can render this world wholly a solitude to one who has this possession
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Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.
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Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.
