Solitude Quotes

"If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment."

"I restore myself when I'm alone."

"Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore."

"Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favorable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad."

"We are all prone to the malady of the introvert who, with the manifold spectacle of the world spread out before him, turns away and gazes only upon the emptiness within. But let us not imagine there is anything grand about the introvert's unhappiness."

"I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude."

"I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable as solitude."

"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?"

"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something that I can do."

"If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle."

"I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude."

"I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."

"We never touch but at points."

"Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal."

"We walk alone in the world."

"In solitude, where we are least alone."

"O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings"

"Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt / In solitude, where we are least alone."

"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

"Though the most beautiful creature were waiting for me at the end of a journey or a walk; though the carpet were of silk, the curtains of the morning clouds; the chairs and sofa stuffed with cygnet's down; the food manna, the wine beyond claret, the window opening on Winander Mere, I should not feel --or rather my happiness would not be so fine, as my solitude is sublime."