Quotes About Solitude

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

A man should eat slowly, properly, even if he eats alone.

Silence is an answer to a wise man.

A calm hour with God is worth a whole lifetime with man

Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

If we face the fact, for it is a fact, that there is no arm to cling to, but that we go alone and that our relation is to the world of reality and not only to the world of men and women.

All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

No man will ever unfold the capacities of his own intellect who does not at least checker his life with solitude.

All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

Men go back to the mountains, as they go back to sailing ships at sea, because in the mountains and on the sea they must face up.

Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man.

There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman

...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.

He that said it was not good for man to be alone, placed the celibate amongst the inferior states of perfection.

Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God.

The ideal man is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy.

One constant in a world of variables - a man alone in the evening in his patch of vegetables. and all the things he takes down with him there, where the easement runs along the back fence.

The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.

The men who have had the most to give to their fellow men are those who have enriched their minds and hearts in solitude. It is a poor education that does not fit a man to be alone with himself.

Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain.

Our secret thoughts are rarely heard except in secret. No man knows what conscience is until he understands what solitude can teach him concerning it.

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

To keep a faith pure, man had better retire to a monastery.