Solitude Quotes - Page 7

• True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

  William Penn

  Easter, Being Alone, Health

  William Penn (1782). “The Select Works of William Penn....”, p.448

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• It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Squares, Would Be, Miles

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.85, 谷月社

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• To feel themselves in the presence of true greatness many find it necessary only to be alone.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Leadership, Greatness, Feels

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• 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

  Air, Play, Earth

  John Milton (1871). “The poetical works of John Milton, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti”, p.128

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• Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain.

  Robert Frost

  Pain, Rain, Winter

  Robert Frost (1928). “West-running Brook”, Henry Holt

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• The value of solitude - one of its values - is, of course, that there is nothing to cushion against attacks from within, just as there is nothing to help balance at times of particular stress or depression.

  May Sarton

  Stress, Balance, Helping

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.8, Open Road Media

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• The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease, After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.

  William Cowper

  Rain, Flower, Fall

  William Cowper (1872). “The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc”, p.419

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• May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

  Leonard Cohen

  Blessing, Family And Friends, May

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• Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Inspirational, Strong Women, Real

  Barbara De Angelis (1995). “Real Moments”, Dell

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• Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon." Lisa Simpson

  Matt Groening

  Beautiful, Hurt, Crazy

  "The Simpsons: The Secret War of Lisa Simpson". m.imdb.com. 18 May 1997.

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• Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude.

  Thomas Browne

  Being Alone, Self, Able

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals”, p.176

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• Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a 'builder-upper.

  Robert Benchley

  Next, Habit, Shots

  Robert Benchley (1976). “Chips Off the Old Benchley”, Amereon Limited

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• I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded.

  Edward George, Baron George

  Flower, Light, Banquets

  "The last days of Pompeii". Book by Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1834.

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• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

  Francis Bacon

  Love, Loneliness, Real Friends

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Friendship'

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• There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.

  Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

  Wall, Being Alone, Wine

  "Freedom". Book by Sidonie Gabrielle Colette, 1908.

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• 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

  Men, History, Temptation

  Charles de Gaulle (1960). “War Memoirs: Salvation, 1944-1946”

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• A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Inspirational, Children, Being Alone

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• Solitude is independence.

  Hermann Hesse

  Being Alone, Creativity, Independence

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.37, Macmillan

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• 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

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Eric Hoffer (1955). “The passionate state of mind, and other aphorisms”

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• Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Loneliness, Character

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.32

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• I restore myself when I'm alone.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Ms. Magazine (p. 40), August 1972.

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• 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.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Music, Single, Men

  Thomas De Quincey (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)”, p.1549, Delphi Classics

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