Solitude Quotes

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude in all ages.
William Mathews

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
Berthold Auerbach

Solitude either develops the mental powers, or renders men dull and vicious.

Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense!

Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives of Cambridge College is as solitary as a dervis in the desert.

Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold.
Boufflers

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

Professors represented an unsatisfactory halfway house between the two harsh disciplines that make a man seriouscommunity and solitude.

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.







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