Solitude Quotes

48 quotations about Solitude
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
Joseph Addison · Solitude
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Francis Bacon · Solitude
The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold.
Boufflers · Solitude
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Arthur Brisbane · Solitude
This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude.
Jean De La Bruyere · Solitude
In solitude, where we are least alone.
Lord Byron · Solitude
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
Robert Cecil · Solitude
If you are afraid of loneliness, don't marry.
Anton Chekhov · Solitude
Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.
Winston Churchill · Solitude
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
Cyril Connolly · Solitude
The best thinking has been done in solitude.
Thomas A. Edison · Solitude
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein · Solitude
Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Albert Einstein · Solitude
Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Solitude
We walk alone in the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Solitude
We never touch but at points.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Solitude
Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.
Ralph Waldo Emerson · Solitude
The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
Euripides · Solitude
I want to be left alone.
Greta Garbo · Solitude
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
George Herbert · Solitude
A man by himself is in bad company.
Eric Hoffer · Solitude
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Aldous Huxley · Solitude
If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.
Samuel Johnson · Solitude
Solitude is un-American.
Erica Jong · Solitude
O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings
John Keats · Solitude

Authors on Solitude

Joseph Addison Francis Bacon Boufflers Arthur Brisbane Jean De La Bruyere Lord Byron Robert Cecil Anton Chekhov Winston Churchill Cyril Connolly Thomas A. Edison Albert Einstein Ralph Waldo Emerson Euripides Greta Garbo George Herbert Eric Hoffer Aldous Huxley Samuel Johnson Erica Jong