Solitude Quotes

Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes

Victor Hugo

In solitude, where we are least alone.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

Laurence Sterne

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will. Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

True solitude is a din of birdsong, seething leaves, whirling colors, or a clamor of tracks in the snow.

Edward Hoagland

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world -- it's the American way of looking at things.

Henry Miller