Solitude Quotes

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One can acquire everything in solitude except character.
Stendhal

Character, Everything, Except

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

Live, Maturity, Youth

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert Einstein

Life, Mind, Creative

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.
Albert Einstein

Young, Painful, Mature

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Solitude is the place of purification.
Martin Buber

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I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau

Found, Companion

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David Thoreau

Life, Poverty, Universe

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich

Alone, Pain, Loneliness

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau

Love, Alone, Found

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

God, Either, Wild

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
Victor Hugo

Give, Enough, Prayer

Being solitary is being alone well: being alone luxuriously immersed in doings of your own choice, aware of the fullness of your won presence rather than of the absence of others. Because solitude is an achievement.
Alice Koller

Alone, Others, Rather

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Henry David Thoreau

Men, Alone, Lonely

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

Friendship, Society, Two

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Aldous Huxley

Religion, Mind, Powerful

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
Dag Hammarskjold

Friendship, Loneliness, Words

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Society, Inspired, Instructed

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Child, Himself, Creation

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
Jodie Foster

Great, War, Experience

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Made, Perfect, Quiet

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Thomas A. Edison

Best, Thinking, Done

Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.
Barbara de Angelis

Women, Real, Give

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Two, Between, Hold

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich

Alone, Pain, Loneliness

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich

Alone, Pain, Loneliness

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
Thomas Merton

Hope, Future, Find

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Good, Reason, Difficult

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

Great, Men, Build

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

God, Either, Wild

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 is solitude.
William Wordsworth

Business, Tired, Long

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