Solitude Quotes - Page 12

• Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts; in company, I am sober again.

  Mason Cooley

  Drunk, Sober, My Thoughts

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

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Being Alone, Men, Alone Man

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.19, 谷月社

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• You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

  Wayne Dyer

  Confidence, Lonely, Clever

  "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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• Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Life, Art, Literature

  Fernando Pessoa (1988). “Numbers: 4”

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• Reading well is one of the greatest pleasures that solitude can afford you.

  Harold Bloom

  Reading, Pleasure, Wells

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• The things one experiences alone with oneself are very much stronger and purer.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Wisdom, Being Alone, Feeling Lonely

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• A man is born alone and dies alone; and he experiences the good and bad consequences of his karma alone; and he goes alone to hell or the Supreme abode.

  Chanakya

  Life, Karma, Being Alone

  "Chanakya Neeti" by Chanakya, (p. 13), 2002.

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• It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

  Jodie Foster

  War, Being Alone, Interesting

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• To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Beach, Ocean, Sea

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• Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances.

  William Powell

  Inspirational, Friendship, Real Friends

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• Hermits have no peer pressure.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Peer Pressure

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• When I dance, I dance; when I sleep, I sleep; yes, and when I walk alone in a beautiful orchard, if my thoughts drift to far-off matters for some part of the time for some other part I lead them back again to the walk, the orchard, to the sweetness of this solitude, to myself.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Beautiful, Sleep, Simplicity

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• The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Secret, Age, Honorable

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.169, Penguin UK

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• The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.

  James Russell Lowell

  Nurse, Soul

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.54

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• Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

  Liv Tyler

  Beauty, Strange, Introvert

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• If you would live innocently, seek solitude.

  Publilius Syrus

  Innocence, Ifs

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• I love tranquil solitude
  And such society
  As is quiet, wise, and good.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Wise, Loner

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.294

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• Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.

  Laurence Sterne

  Nurse, Loner

  Laurence Sterne (1840). “The Works ...: With a Life of the Author”, p.329

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• Man cannot long survive without air, water, and sleep. Next in importance comes food. And close on its heels, solitude.

  Thomas Szasz

  Sleep, Men, Air

  Thomas Stephen Szasz “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, Transaction Publishers

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• ... be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Thinking, Appreciate

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• We walk alone in the world.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  World, Walks

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Jean Ferguson Carr (1987). “The Essays of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.125, Harvard University Press

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• It is in solitude that the works of hand, heart and mind are always conceived, and in solitude that individuality must be affirmed.

  Robert M. Lindner

  Heart, Hands, Individuality

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• Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience.

  May Sarton

  Flavor, Salt, Personhood

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• It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, May, Bears

  Samuel Johnson (1784). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes..”, p.27

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