Solitude Quotes - Page 21

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.

No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.

O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place.

If solitude deprives of the benefit of advice, it also excludes from the mischief of flattery. But the absence of others' applause is generally supplied by the flattery of one's own breast.

It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.

But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.

Solitude is an unavoidable part of creativity. Self-reliance is a happy by-product.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

To feel themselves in the presence of true greatness many find it necessary only to be alone.

Most religions have always appreciated the extreme power of concentrated thought directed toward the benefit of others, especially when that person is practicing in solitude. That's why they have contemplative orders.

A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.

He could have had his choice of any woman in the district. And he chose solitude. Not solitude – that sounds too peaceful. More like solitary confinement.

I have a scholar's love of silence and solitude. To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort of torment.

I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.

Even as people take pride in their national independence, we know we are becoming more and more interdependent." Bill Clinton "The price for independence is often isolation and solitude.

I love solitude, but I prize it most when plenty of company is available.

Then never less alone than when alone.

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it in the shades of privacy.

The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout.

To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to inquire and answer inquiries, is the business of the scholar

It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check.

It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality must be affirmed.

Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.

Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a 'builder-upper.