Quotes About Solitude

Maybe she'd get a Siamese fighting fish. Or better yet, a ficus tree. God knows a plant would probably be a lot less offended that she ate take-out sushi almost every other night. It was a thought.

approached alone, the hallway too small, the rooms too tightly bunched

asked Thomas; it's just him and me and has been for a very long time. We tell each other we are

She had this conversation with herself once a year. Generally, right about now, when the holidays were looming and people were talking excitedly about family gatherings, and she went home each night to an empty condo that seemed much emptier than it did in spring-filled May or hot, sunny August.

Solitude is sometimes best society.

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

Solitude is sometimes the best society.

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.

As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of a mountain, instead of climbing steadily to its top.

That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart.

How would I myself live in this proposed society? How long would it be before I went stark staring mad?

The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

Few of us could bear to have ourselves for neighbors.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.

It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.

There is a society in the deepest solitude.

You should make no effort to try to join society, stay right where you are. Give your name and serial number and wait for society to come to you.

What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not have existed in solitude : the aims of friendship , religion , science , and art .

Let those who like society better have it.

If from society we learn to live, solitude should teach us how to die.

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.