solitude quotes

• 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. (William Wordsworth) [business/solitude]
• To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. (Joseph Addison) [solitude]
• The worst solitude is to have no real friendships. (Francis Bacon) [solitude]
• Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. (Francis Bacon) [solitude/wild/god]
• 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. (Dietrich Bonhoeffer) [solitude/silence/speech/silence]
• Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are. (Robert Cecil) [solitude/society]
• I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. (Albert Einstein) [solitude/youth/maturity]
• Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature. (Albert Einstein) [solitude/more]
• Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [respect/child/solitude]
• Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [solitude/society]
• Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [conversation/understanding/solitude/school]
• It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered. But the finished man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [opinion/solitude/perfect/solitude]
• A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [creation/child/solitude]
• Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [solitude/character]
• In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone. (George Herbert) [solitude]
• Piety practiced in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendor of beneficence. (Samuel Johnson) [solitude/flower/give/delight]
• Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad. (Samuel Johnson) [solitude/being/virtue/remember]
• O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings (John Keats) [solitude]
• Solitude: a sweet absence of looks. (Milan Kundera) [solitude]
• Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character. (James Lowell) [solitude/imagination/society/character]
• 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. (Thomas Mann) [solitude/beauty/poetry/absurd]
• One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it --those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain. (Friedrich Nietzsche) [solitude/books/duties/nature]
• Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones. (Sydney Smith) [solitude]
• In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. (Laurence Sterne) [solitude/mind]
• I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. (Henry David Thoreau) [solitude/society]
• I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude. (Henry David Thoreau) [solitude]
• 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. (Simone Weil) [solitude/matter/sky/value]
• 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. (William Wordsworth) [business/solitude]
• Fellini's universe was filled with processions and parades: occult, mystical, generous, bestial, allusive, full of the fantastical, of mythic odyssey and solitude, composed with great tenderness. (Barbara Steele) [universe/solitude]
• I had just returned to Europe after an agonizing year of supernatural solitude under contract to 20th-Century-Fox. (Barbara Steele) [europe/solitude/contract]
• Silence and solitude are more distracting to me than chatter and commotion. (Marilu Henner) [silence/solitude/more]

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