Solitude Quotes - Page 9

• if you want to be a little bit solitary and work very hard, you can do it more easily in New York than in a town like Paris or London. Because you depend so much for human relationships here on the phone. If you don't answer your phone, you are quite a lonely couple.

  Arman

  Lonely, New York, Couple

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• It can be frightening to spend 5 weeks alone in a cabin in the wilderness. I was able to collect my thoughts and worked a lot - because I couldn't do anything else.

  Wanda Koop

  Cabins, Able, Wilderness

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• Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Loneliness, One Thing

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• Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone.

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton

  Woe Unto, Woe, Bears

  Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1875). “The Intellectual Life”, p.324

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• Solitude delighteth well to feed on many thoughts;
  There as thou sittest peaceful, communing with fancy,
  The precious poetry of life shall gild its leaden cares;
  There, as thou walkest by the sea beneath the gentle stars,
  Many kindling seeds of good will sprout within thy soul;
  Thou shalt weep in Solitude,--thou shalt pray in Solitude.
  Thou shalt sing for joy of heart, and praise the grace of Solitude.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Stars, Heart, Sea

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• Unsociable humors are contracted in solitude, which will, in the end, not fail of corrupting the understanding as well as the manners, and of utterly disqualifying a man for the satisfactions and duties of life. Men must be taken as they are, and we neither make them or ourselves better by flying from or quarreling with them.

  Edmund Burke

  Taken, Men, Understanding

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• My retirement was now become solitude; the former is, I believe, the best state for the mind of man, the latter almost the worst. In complete solitude, the eye wants objects, the heart wants attachments, the understanding wants reciprocation. The character loses its tenderness when it has nothing to strengthen it, its sweetness when it has nothing to soothe it.

  Hannah More

  Retirement, Believe, Character

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.390

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• What a brave privilege is it to be free from all contentions, from all envying or being envied, from receiving or paying all kinds of ceremonies!

  Abraham Cowley

  Brave, Receiving, Privilege

  Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1826). “Prose works of Abraham Cowley ; including his essays in prose and verse”, p.137

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• Only the bad man is alone.

  Denis Diderot

  Men, Bad Man

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• A certain degree of solitude seems necessary to the full growth and spread of the highest mind; and therefore must a very extensive intercourse with men stifle many a holy germ, and scare away the gods, who shun the restless tumult of noisy companies and the discussion of petty interests.

  Novalis

  Men, Mind, Growth

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• No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. The true life of man is in society.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Men, True Life, Doubt

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.89

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• That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated by the social man happens to man himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude; the brambles grow up in his desert heart.

  Antoine Rivarol

  Growing Up, Heart, Men

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• Luther deters me from solitariness; but he does not mean from a sober solitude that rallies our scattered strengths and prepares us against any new encounter from without.

  Francis Atterbury

  Mean, Encounters, Doe

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• Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Men, Form, Interiors

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• Oh, the solitariness of sin! There is nothing like it, except, perhaps, the solitariness of death. In that isolation none can reach you, none can feed you.

  Hugh Reginald Haweis

  Isolation, Sin

  Hugh Reginald Haweis (1875). “Speech in Season”, p.365

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• The painter or draftsman ought to be solitary, in order that the well-being of the body not sap the vigour of the mind.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Order, Mind, Sap

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• Solitude without togetherness deteriorates into loneliness. One needs strong roots in togetherness to be solitary rather than lonely when one is alone.

  David Steindl-Rast

  Lonely, Strong, Loneliness

  David Steindl-Rast (1983). “A listening heart: the art of contemplative living”, Crossroad Pub Co

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• Of course, when one is faced with a canvas, one is no longer alone, and the sense of solitude diminishes. This can be an agreeable passage of time. In fact, solitude then becomes a kind of companion.

  Pierre Alechinsky

  Facts, Kind, Canvas

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• I must have the personal dialogue, the private time, with each painting in progress. I can't share it with anyone until it's done.

  Ken Danby

  Progress, Done, Painting

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• I love isolation. It's very important for me to have time and space to myself when I can sit and read or write as well as paint. It's all part of the process.

  Stuart Pearson Wright

  Writing, Love Is, Space

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• In solitude... one can think and feel deeply without interruption. I have definitely grown far closer to myself rather than to others because I see my quiltmaking as my experience which has nothing to do with other people.

  Nancy Crow

  Thinking, People, Feels

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• There is always a part of our being into which those who are dearer to us far than our own lives are yet unable to enter.

  James Anthony Froude

  James Anthony Froude (2004). “Short Studies on Great Subjects”, p.209, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• I am persuaded there is no such thing after all as a perfect enjoyment of solitude; for the more delicious the solitude the more one wants a companion.

  Leigh Hunt

  Perfect, Want, Companion

  Leigh Hunt, Thornton Leigh Hunt (1862). “The Correspondence of Leigh Hunt”, p.37, London : Smith, Elder

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• Nothing is achieved without solitude.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

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• Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Friendship, Loneliness, Being Alone

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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