Solitude Quotes

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Introverts prefer to work independently, and solitude can be a catalyst to innovation.

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.

William Wordsworth

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

Anna Laetitia Barbauld

Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.

One sees that dead, vacant look steal over the rarest, finest of women's faces... in the very midst, it may be, of their warmest summer's day; and then one can guess at the secret of intolerable solitude that lies hid beneath the delicate laces...

Rebecca Harding Davis

Solitude bears the same relation to the mind that sleep does to the body. It affords it the necessary opportunities for repose and recovery.

William Gilmore Simms

I have only one desire, and that is the desire for solitude-to disappear into God, to be submerged in His peace, to be lost in the secret of His Face.

Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality.

Charles Phillips (Irish barrister)

I cannot endure the horror, the evil, which comes to self in solitude.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

We must get to the place of real solitude with Christ. He is our mountain-height and our sea-calm.

Oswald Chambers

Solitude with God repairs the damage done by the fret and noise and clamour of the world.

Oswald Chambers

In the beginning was vastness, solitude and the deepest night. Darkness was upon the face of the deep, for as yet there was no light.

Arthur Eddington

The Man of science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes and loves it in his solitude.

William Wordsworth

The association between failure, loneliness, and solitude is so strong in our culture that people often find it difficult to believe that there are some who like being by themselves.

I exist in the depths of solitude pondering my true goal Trying 2 find peace of mind and still preserve my soul

I was like one who, having discovered the ancient Eden still existing in all its primitive glory, should resolve to enjoy it in solitude, and never betray to mortal the secret of its locality. The rod of my life was bent at this moment. I destined myself to be a microscopist.

Fitz James O'Brien

Solitude and quiet are highly desirable, but the lack of them is no barrier to writing... The will to work builds all the seclusion that one needs.

Courage looks you straight in the eye. She is not impressed with power trippers, and she knows first aid. Courage is not afraid to weep, and she is not afraid to pray, even when she is not sure who she is praying to. When she walks it is clear she has made the journey from loneliness to solitude. The people who told me she was stern were not lying. they just forgot to mention she was kind.

J. Ruth Gendler

We all know the tragedy of the dustbowls, the cruel unforgivable erosions of the soil, the depletion of fish or game, and the shrinking of the noble forests. And we know that such catastrophes shrivel the spirit of the people... The wilderness is pushed back, man is everywhere. Solitude, so vital to the individual man, is almost nowhere.

If you really want to know something about solitude, become famous.

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

The writer's curse is that even in solitude, no matter its duration, he never grows lonely or bored.

Men grow strong in action, but in solitude
Their thoughts are ripened.

For Nature is love, and finds haunts for true love, Where nothing can hear or intrude; It hides from the eagle and joins with the dove, In beautiful green solitude.