Solitude Quotes

48 quotations about Solitude
The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
Omar Khayyam · Solitude
Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.
Milan Kundera · Solitude
A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.
Walter Savage Landor · Solitude
Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character.
James Russell Lowell · Solitude
Two Paradises t'were in one, to live in Paradise alone.
Andrew Marvell · Solitude
In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.
William Mathews · Solitude
An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.
Henry Miller · Solitude
Solitude begets whimsies.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu · Solitude
Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.
Ovid · Solitude
Life without a friend is death without a witness.
Spanish Proverb · Solitude
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
Jules Renard · Solitude
The strong man is strongest when alone.
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller · Solitude
A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
Arthur Schopenhauer · Solitude
Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.
Sydney Smith · Solitude
One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Henri B. Stendhal · Solitude
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
Laurence Sterne · Solitude
I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau · Solitude
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
Henry David Thoreau · Solitude
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.
Henry David Thoreau · Solitude
Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good.
Source Unknown · Solitude
May God be gracious to each lonely one who walks in silence towards the setting sun.
Source Unknown · Solitude
You have already failed if you need a lot of inspectors.
Source Unknown · Solitude
Go away, I'm all right!
H.G. Wells · 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