Quotes About Solitude

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

Masturbation is the thinking man's television.

The most dramatic conflicts are perhaps, those that take place not between men but between a man and himself - where the arena of conflict is a solitary mind.

One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

All's well that ends well; which is the epitaph I should put on my tombstone if I were the last man left alive.

I'm not fit company for man or beast.

I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.

I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.

I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of some sort.

The wild bird that flies so lone and far has somewhere its nest and brood. A little fluttering heart of love impels its wings, and points its course. There is nothing so solitary as a solitary man.

On the mountains there is freedom! The world is perfect everywhere, Save where man comes with his torment.

Every man needs a place to go to.

If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.

Who knows the tryst a man keeps with the wind and sky.

Men ask the way to Cold Mountain, Cold Mountain: there's no through trail.

By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning and the evening, compels me to solitude.

Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

A man in the right, with God on his side, is in the majority, though he be alone, for God is multitudinous above all populations of the earth.

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

Don't you just love those long rainy afternoons in New Orleans when an hour isn't just an hour - but a little piece of eternity dropped into your hands - and who knows what to do with it?

We're all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.