Quotes about Solitude

Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace and rest can never dwell, hope never comes that comes to all.

Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

Unrespited, unpitied, unrepriev'd.

Virtue could see to do what virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where, with her best nurse contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings.

More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchang'd to hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, on evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues; In darkness, and with dangers compass'd round, and solitude.

Solitude sometimes is best society.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

I am the only being whose doom No tongue would ask no eye would mourn I never caused a thought of gloom A smile of joy since I was born In secret pleasure -- secret tears This changeful life has slipped away As friendless after eighteen years As lone as on my natal day.

Busy? The word loses all meaning under the canopy of this sky.

I was so busy serving the Divine Presence that we never got any time alone anymore.

When a man cuts himself absolutely adrift from custom, what an astonishingly light spar floats him! How few his wants are, after all!