1,686 Quotes About Solitude

I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.

Why should not our whole life and its scenery be actually thus fair and distinct? All our lives want a suitable background. They should at least, like the life of the anchorite, be as impressive to behold as objects in a desert, a broken shaft or crumbling mound against a limitless horizon.

There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows.

As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.

The man of genius, like a dog with a bone, or the slave who has swallowed a diamond, or a patient with the gravel, sits afar and retired, off the road, hangs out no sign of refreshment for man and beast, but says, by all possible hints and signs, I wish to be alone,--good-by,--fare-well. But the Landlord can afford to live without privacy.

The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did not know that I was suffering at all. Secondly, as an Irishman might say, I had thought it was indigestion of the society I got.

Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.

In the depths of the night, fear grips my heart. It paralyzes my mind. But most of all, I feel very, very alone