Solitude Quotes - Page 13

Mark! Where his carnage and his conquests cease, He makes a solitude and calls it-peace!

Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.

One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

Solitude is sometimes the best society.

Solitude is a torment which is not threatened in hell itself.

Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?

Inspiration comes to us slowly and quietly . prime it with a little solitude.

There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.

It is the divine attribute of the imagination, that it is irrepressible, unconfinable; that when the real world is shut out, it can create a world for itself, and with a necromantic power can conjure up glorious shapes and forms, and brilliant visions to make solitude populous, and irradiate the gloom of a dungeon.

Hours of solitude, hours of creation, hours of meditation. Solitude and meditation gave me an awareness, a perspective which I have never lost: that of solidarity with the rest of mankind.

Solitude is one of our great superpowers... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions.

As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude.

In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still ... In talk your mind can be stretched, widened, exhilarated to heights, but it cannot be deepened; you have to deepen it yourself.

a basic “must” for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental.

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it were not true. That is all.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

Nobody with me at sea but myself.

Not to be alone - ever - is one of my ideas of hell, and a day when I have had no solitude at all in which 'to catch up with myself' I find mentally, physically and spiritually exhausting.

A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.

Solitude begets whimsies.

Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.

O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,-- Nature's observatory--whence the dell, In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell, May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep 'Mongst boughs pavilion'd, where the deer's swift leap Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell.