Quotes About Solitude

One can acquire everything in solitude but character.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

In solitude, when we are least alone.

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.

Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea.

I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd, - "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude." But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper - Solitude is sweet.

The strongest man is the one who stands most alone.

The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires.

I have trodden the winepress alone.

The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

A great city, a great solitude.

As a remedy to life in society, I would suggest the big city. Nowadays it is the only desert within our reach.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.

Are not my days few? Cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little, Before I go to the place from which I shall not return.

I desire to so conduct the affairs of this administration that if, at the end ... I have lost every friend on earth, I shall have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside me.

I liked to sail alone. The sea was the same as a girl to me - I did not want anyone else along.

My thoughts ran a wool-gathering.

They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

Down to Gehenna or up to the throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.

All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.

The voice of one crying in the wilderness.

Letter-writing is the only device for combining solitude with good company.

Women's art, though created in solitude, wells up out of community. There is, clearly, both enormous hunger for the work thus being diffused, and an explosion of creative energy, bursting through the coercive choicelessness of the system on whose boundaries we are working.