Quotes about Solitude

I am left alone in the wide world. My own dear family I have buried: one in Rangoon, and two in Amherst. What remains for me but to hold myself in readiness to follow the dear departed to that blessed world, 'Where my best friends, my kindred dwell, where God, my Saviour, reigns.'

Be good and you will be lonely.

One of the best gifts we can give ourselves is time alone with God.

He [Calvin Coolidge] is the first president to discover that what the American people want is to be left alone.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.

Because of their enmity you will be left alone. They will cast you out and forsake you.

Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.

Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.

One of the best things you can do in this world is take a nap in the woods.

We enter solitude, in which also we lose loneliness.