Quotes About Solitude

I know what men want. Men want to be really, really close to someone who will leave them alone.

I remember thinking that walking on the beach as a free man is pretty desirable.

For man is essentially alone, and one should pity him and love him and grieve with him.

Judging is a lonely job in which a man is, as near as may be, an island entire.

I gravitate towards places where humans have been and are no more, to the edge of man's influence, where the elements are taking over or covering man's traces.

It is a fine thing to be out on the hills alone. A man can hardly be a beast or a fool alone on a great mountain.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.

A man of genius can hardly be sociable, for what dialogues could indeed be so intelligent and entertaining as his own monologues?

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

The right most valued by all civilized men is the right to be left alone.

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

Every man must, in a measure, be alone in the world. No heart was ever cast in the same mould as that which we bear within us.

Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.

I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world

None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.

For one thing, I was no longer alone; a man is never alone with the wind-and the boat made three.

For all the toll the desert takes of a man it gives compensations, deep breaths, deep sleep, and the communion of the stars.

In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you

Ordinary men hate solitude. But the Master makes use of it, embracing his aloneness, realizing he is one with the whole universe.

Only in intimate communion with solitude may man find himself. Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

I long for scenes where man has never trod;... There to abide with my Creator, God.

Men don't even ask me out. I can't remember the last time I was asked out on a date, and I'm talking years here. I spend my life more and more alone.

A man without scenery is completely disarmed.