Quotes about Solitude
It is easy in the world to live after the worlds opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Go cherish your soul; express companions; set your habits to a life of solitude; then will the faculties rise fair and full within.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Solitary converse with nature; for thence are ejaculated sweet and dreadful words never uttered in libraries. Ah! the spring days, the summer dawns, and October woods!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prison is essentially a shortage of space made up for by a surplus of time; to an inmate, both are palpable.
- Joseph Brodsky
In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone; but sometimes it is a great relief.
- John Barrymore
For what are they all in their high conceit, When man in the bush with God may meet?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored
- Albert Camus
Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.
- Oswald Chambers
But if a man would be alone, let him look at the stars. The rays that come from those heavenly worlds, will separate between him and vulgar things.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Let me admonish you, first of all, to go alone; to refuse the good models, even those which are sacred in the imagination of men, and dare to love God without mediator or veil.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Think me not unkind and rude That I walk alone in grove and glen; I go to the god of the wood To fetch his word to men.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson