Quotes
Quotes about Solitude
For solitude sometimes is best society,
And short retirement urges sweet return.
Virtue could see to do what virtue would
By her own radiant light, though sun and moon
Were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self
Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude,
Where with her best nurse Contemplation
She plumes her feathers and lets grow her wings,
That in the various bustle of resort
Were all-to ruffled, and sometimes impair'd.
He that has light within his own clear breast
May sit i' th' centre and enjoy bright day;
But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts
Benighted walks under the midday sun.
Let but thy wicked men from out thee go,
And all the fools that crowd thee so,
Even thou, who dost thy millions boast,
A village less than Islington wilt grow,
A solitude almost.
I praise the Frenchman, his remark was shrewd,--
How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!
But grant me still a friend in my retreat,
Whom I may whisper, Solitude is sweet.
O Solitude! where are the charms
That sages have seen in thy face?
That inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude.
In solitude, where we are least alone.
He makes a solitude, and calls it--peace!
In the desert a fountain is springing,
In the wide waste there still is a tree,
And a bird in the solitude singing,
Which speaks to my spirit of thee.
I love tranquil solitude
And such society
As is quiet, wise, and good.
She [the Roman Catholic Church] may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
The energies of our system will decay; the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit and all his thoughts will perish.
Grand, gloomy, and peculiar, he sat upon the throne a sceptred hermit, wrapped in the solitude of his own originality.
They make solitude, which they call peace.
The fear of solitude is at the bottom the fear of the double, the figure which appears one day and always heralds death
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Solitude is a silent storm that breaks down all our dead branches; Yet it sends our living roots deeper into the living heart of the living earth.
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
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; all leave it alone.
One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
