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To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude. - Joseph Addison He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude. - Aristotle The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. - Francis Bacon Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude. - John Stuart Blackie, Sonnet--Highland Solitude Alone!--That worn-out word, So idly spoken, and so coldly heard; Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, Of hope laid waste, knells in that word--Alone! - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, New Timon (pt. II) I am as one who is left alone at a banquet, the lights dead and the flowers faded. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, The Last Days of Pompeii (ch. V) Be not solitary, be not idle. - Robert Burton But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold (canto II, st. 26) This is to be along; this, this is solitude! - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold (canto II, st. 26) Among them, but not of them. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold (canto III, st. 113) In solitude, when we are least alone. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold (canto III, st. 90) 'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give No hollow aid; alone--man with his God must strive. - Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron), Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 33) Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. - Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (3) That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure: nor that he was ever less alone than when alone. [Lat., Nunquam se minus otiosum esse quam cum otiosus; nec minus solum quam cum solus esset.] - Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero) (often called "Tully" for short), De Officiis (bk. III, ch. I) Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner (pt. IV) So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner (pt. VII) 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. - William Cowper, Retirement (l. 739), quotation is also attributed to Jean de la Bruyere and to Jean Louis Guez de Balzac Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more! - William Cowper, Task (bk. II, l. 1) 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. - William Cowper, Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the true parent of genius. In all ages solitude has been called for--has been flown to. - Isaac D'Israeli, Literary Character of Men of Genius (ch. X) There is a society in the deepest solitude. - Isaac D'Israeli, Literary Character of Men of Genius (ch. X) So vain is the belief That the sequestered path has fewest flowers. - Thomas Doubleday, Sonnet--The Poet's Solitude Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world; doth live his own; Though solitary, who is not alone, But doth converse with that eternal love. - William Drummond (1), Urania; or, Spiritual Poems I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. - Albert Einstein I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind. - Albert Einstein Displaying page 1 of 3 for this topic: Next >> [1] 2 3
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