Quotes About Solitude

For a spiritual person, it is commendable to rarely venture out, avoid being seen, and have no desire to see others.

The best thinking has been done in solitude.

Books are becoming everything to me. If I had at this moment any choice in life, I would bury myself in one of those immense libraries...and never pass a waking hour without a book before me.

Imagine all human beings swept off the face of the earth, excepting one man. Imagine this man in some vast city, New York or London. Imagine him on the third or fourth day of his solitude sitting in a house and hearing a ring at the door-bell!

We visit...a neighboring grave-yard. I am by this time in a condition of mind to become a willing inmate of the place.

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me--I have no others.

I avoid literature whenever possible, because whenever possible I avoid myself...

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Work alone is noble.

To be cut off, to be left solitary; to have a world alien, not your world; all a hostile camp for you; not a home at all of hearts and faces who are yours, whose you are! It is the frightfullest enchantment; too truly a work of the Evil One. To have neither superior, nor inferior, nor equal, united manlike to you. Without father, without child, without brother. Man knows no sadder destiny.

Thought will not work except in silence.

It is absolutely indispensable, for most people, especially for the like of me, so thin-skinned and so confused at being, to get into perfect seclusion of mind from time to time and to be well alone

Those scenes of solitude from which the hand of nature have never been lifted, affect the mind with a more deep-toned emotion than aught which the hand of man has touched. Amid them the consequent associations are of God the Creator, they are His undefiled works; and the mind is cast into contemplation of eternal things.

The burden of the incommunicable.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone all leave it alone.

Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.

I feel best in nature or near nature.

I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you entertain yourself and kind of grows your imagination - being alone is quite good for all that. You make up stories, talk to the animals, let them be an audience, a bunch of cows.

If I had my will I would live in a ship on the sea, and never come nearer to humanity than that!

I am quite hard to live with, and I know that if I go through a bad run, I'm not the best company and am best left alone. But I'm not nearly as bad as people like to make out.

Be able to live alone, even if you don't want to and think you will never find it necessary.

I need my time to be lonely.

I don't need friends.