solitude

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.

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.

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.

The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires.

There are three things a man must do alone. Be born die and testify.

Secret and self-contained and solitary as an oyster.

We enter the world alone we leave it alone.

The strongest man is the one who stands most alone.

We never touch but at points.

Night when words fade and things come alive when the destructive analysis of day is done and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

In solitude when we are least alone.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins for life.

If from Society we learn to live Tis Solitude should teach us how to die It hath no flatterers.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Solitary trees if they grow at all grow strong.

In the world a man lives in his own age in solitude in all ages.

One can acquire everything in solitude but character.