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A man by himself is in bad company.

Eric Hoffer

Solitude
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A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Solitude
3

A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Walter Savage Landor

Solitude
4

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Albert Camus

Solitude
5

Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.

Emil Cioran

Solitude
6

An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

Henry Miller

Solitude
7

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'Tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou findst there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, he breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind.

George Herbert

Solitude
8

Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Solitude
9

Go away, I'm all right!

H. G. Wells

Solitude
10

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

Thomas Carlyle

Solitude
11

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

Solitude
12

I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.

Henry David Thoreau

Solitude
13

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Albert Einstein

Solitude
14

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

Henry David Thoreau

Solitude
15

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

Henry David Thoreau

Solitude
16

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

Jules Renard

Solitude
17

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.

Samuel Johnson

Solitude
18

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Laurence Sterne

Solitude
19

In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention.

Simone Weil

Solitude
20

In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.

George Herbert

Solitude
21

In solitude, where we are least alone.

George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron Byron

Solitude
22

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

Charles de Gaulle

Solitude
23

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Solitude
24

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

Solitude
25

May God be gracious to each lonely one who walks in silence towards the setting sun.

Solitude
26

O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings

John Keats

Solitude
27

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

William Cowper

Solitude
28

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Stendhal

Solitude
29

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Solitude
30

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Winston Churchill

Solitude
31

Solitude begets whimsies.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

Solitude
32

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

Sydney Smith

Solitude
33

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Thomas Mann

Solitude
34

Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character.

James Russell Lowell

Solitude
35

Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.

Samuel Johnson

Solitude
36

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Solitude
37

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

Albert Einstein

Solitude
38

Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good.

Solitude
39

Solitude is un-American.

Erica Jong

Solitude
40

Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

Milan Kundera

Solitude
41

The best thinking has been done in solitude.

Thomas Edison

Solitude
42

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

Euripides

Solitude
43

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

Aldous Huxley

Solitude
44

The strong man is strongest when alone.

Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

Solitude
45

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

Omar Khayyám

Solitude
46

The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death.

Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Solitude
47

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

Cyril Connolly

Solitude
48

This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude.

Jean de La Bruyère

Solitude
49

Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel --or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime.

John Keats

Solitude
50

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

Joseph Addison

Solitude
51

True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.

Edward Hoagland

Solitude
52

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

Edward Dahlberg

Solitude
53

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness.

Bertrand Russell

Solitude
54

We never touch but at points.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Solitude
55

We walk alone in the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Solitude
56

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

Ovid

Solitude
57

What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?

John Milton

Solitude
58

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.

William Wordsworth

Solitude
59

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

Francis Bacon

Solitude
60

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

Eric Hoffer

Solitude
61

You have already failed if you need a lot of inspectors.

Solitude

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A man by himself is in bad company.

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.

A solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.

An artist is always alone -- if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'Tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou findst there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, he breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind.

Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius.

Go away, I'm all right!

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

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable as solitude.

I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the stars, the moon, trees in blossom), things of less value (perhaps) than a human spirit. Its value lies in the greater possibility of attention.

In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

May God be gracious to each lonely one who walks in silence towards the setting sun.

O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings

Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore.

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.

Solitude begets whimsies.

Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character.

Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good.

Solitude is un-American.

Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

The best thinking has been done in solitude.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.

The strong man is strongest when alone.

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. One's stupefied by it. To get rid of it you try to daub some of it off on to people who come to see you, and they hate that. To be alone trains one for death.

The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.

This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude.

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

True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness.

We never touch but at points.

We walk alone in the world.

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.

What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

You have already failed if you need a lot of inspectors.