Solitude Quotes - Page 29

Wherever you may seek solitude, men will ferret you out and compel you to belong to their desperate company of oddfellows.

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. [It allows you to] be the Mungo Park, the Lewis and Clark of your own streams and oceans; [to] explore your own higher latitudes; [to] be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

In solitude we become aware that our worth is not the same as our usefulness.

Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.

In our own presence, we all pretend to be simpler than we are: thus we take a break from our fellow human beings.

The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. Only after death, only in solitude, does a man’s true nature emerge. In death, as on the chimney sweep’s Saturday night, the soot gets washed from his body.

I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my solitude, or in the midst of the distractions that I pursue, a charming memory that does not in the least resemble the troubled pleasure of lovers.

Solitude is considered un-American.

Tears do not burn except in solitude.

Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but a sublimity inseperable from the urinary tract: transports bordering upon excretion, a heaven of the glands, sudden sancitity of the orifices. It takes no more than a moment of attention for this intoxication, shaken, to cast you back into the ordures of physiology or a moment of fatigue to recognize that so much ardor produces only a variety of mucous.

The modern listening experience is one of solitude, where someone just listens to music on their laptop.

...loneliness is not a function of solitude.

Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.

Far from the madding crowd is a mistake on a honeymoon.... Solitude! Wherever you are, if you're on a honeymoon, you'll get quite as much solitude as is good for you every twenty-four hours. Constant change and distraction -- that's what wants arranging for. Solitude will arrange itself.

One of the many advantages of being a loner is that often there's time to think, ponder, brood, meditate deeply, and figure things out to one's satisfaction.

No one can endure his own solitude.

Solitude may rust your words.

I have always loved solitude, a trait which tends to increase with age.

Our religious activities should be ordered in such a way as to have plenty of time for the cultivation of the fruits of solitude and silence.

…my Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have.

Sometimes people who are never alone are the loneliest, don't you think so?

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.

I had as lief have been myself alone.