Quotes About Solitude

Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.

The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it does not violate me, but best when it is likest to solitude.

Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

Let a slight snow come and cover the earth, and the tracks of men will show how little the woods and fields are frequented.

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?

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

Many men walk by day; few walk by night. It is a different season.

But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.

There is no man can take, there is no pool can slake, ultimately I am alone; ultimately I am done.

Arguing with a dead man in a lavatory is a claustrophobic experience.

I never mingled with men, but I came home less of a man than I went out.

Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as well as among the most frustrating and humiliating.

A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning.

But a man needs company.

Once my mom passed away, I have nobody to answer to. It's great.

You need a sanctuary. Somewhere where it doesn't feel like it's being tainted by everybody's opinions and other people's money. I think I'm kind of homesick right now.

Sometimes when I sit down to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me.

I'm definitely happy by my self, you know what I mean. The money is better. But you know, I'd just rather be alone.

I have never walked down Fifth Avenue alone without thinking of money.

I'm the only person I know who's got a bunch of money.

Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.

Whoever decides to hate others has chosen to walk alone.