Solitude Quotes

"Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company."

Seneca

"A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free."

Arthur Schopenhauer

"I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society."

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."

"Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude."

Arthur Schopenhauer

"The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude."

Voltaire

“I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.”

“Society is all but rude, to this delicious solitude.”

Andrew Marvell

“The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.”

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.”

Paul Tillich

“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”

May Sarton

“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.”

Wayne Dyer

“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”

Blaise Pascal

“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom; for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“I love to be alone.”

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”

Albert Einstein

“In solitude, where we are least alone.”

Lord Byron

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”

Francis Bacon

“I go into solitude so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern.”

“How gracious, how benign, is Solitude.”

William Wordsworth

“For solitude sometimes is best society, and short retirement urges sweet return.”

John Milton

“How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!”

William Cowper

“Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend.”

“If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself.”