Solitude Quotes

My solitude doesn't depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
One can acquire everything in solitude - except character. View quote
Stendhal
There are days when solitude 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. View quote
Colette
Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god. View quote
Aristotle
He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom. View quote
Arthur Schopenhauer
When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude. View quote
William Wordsworth
Solitude: a sweet absence of looks. View quote
Milan Kundera
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. View quote
Albert Einstein
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self. View quote
May Sarton
Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius. (Edward Gibbon)
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. View quote
Washington Irving
One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude. View quote
Carl Sandburg
God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly. View quote
Paul Valéry
In religions which have lost their creative spark, the gods eventually become no more than poetic motifs or ornaments for decorating human solitude and walls. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself. View quote
Laurence Sterne
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. View quote
Aphra Behn
Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once. View quote
Robert Browning
O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. View quote
William Cowper
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. View quote
Francis Bacon
What now on the other hand makes people sociable is their incapacity to endure solitude and thus themselves. (Arthur Schopenhauer)
Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid. View quote
Karl Kraus
Solitude is as needed to the imagination as society is wholesome to the character. View quote
James Russell Lowell
It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority. View quote
Edward Young