Quotes About Solitude

To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone.

The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

Friends depart, and memory takes them To her caverns, pure and deep.

Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

A fav'rite has no friend!

As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

Friendship is a creature formed for a companionship not for a herd.

Death is mighty, and is no one's friend.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

Friendship creates only the illusion of not being alone.

A White Tiger keeps no friends. It's too dangerous.

Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.

Caring for friends opens the heart, and gifts us with the privilege of sharing the fruits of our self-imposed and necessary solitude.

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now.

I have never met with a friend who furnished me sea-room. I have only tacked a few times and come to anchor - not sailed - made no voyage, carried no venture.

There are times when we have had enough even of our Friends.

The condition which high friendship demands is the ability to do without it.

For friendship I have nobody else except the volcano.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

There's no "brothers" when it comes to white people. We are just complete individuals. We don't care about each other. He's not my brother; my brother lives in Ohio - I don't know that guy.

Sometimes it is better to be alone because it gives you some time to be who you are.