Quotes About Solitude

A man by himself is in bad company.

All men of honor are alone.

He thought he suddenly understood. For the Lincon-shire sergeant-major the word Peace meant that a man could stand up on a hill. For him it meant someone to talk to.

In his lonely solitude, the solitary man feeds upon himself; in the thronging multitude, the many feed upon him. Now choose.

Happy is the man who knows or even the man who remembers those silent vigils where silence itself was the sign of the communion of souls!

It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream.

To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.

If a man does not talk to himself, it is because he is not worth talking to.

'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.

But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless.

From the solitude of the wood, (Man) has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the heart.

Every man's friend is no man's friend.

The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved race, my companions extinct before me.

Man sometimes needs only stillness, just stillness!

A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.

But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.

Sometimes, when a man is alone, that's all you got is your dog.

Poets knew that isolation in nature, far from people and things man-made, was good for the soul, and he'd always identified with poets.

I thought, When a man is properly drunk it is as though he is an a room by himself--there is a physical, impenetrable separation between him and his fellows.

Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real.

Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing.

Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.

But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.