In the tumult of men and events, solitude was my temptation; now it is my friend. What other satisfaction can be sought once you have confronted History?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Solitude sharpens awareness of small pleasures otherwise lost.
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
When you acknowledge the integrity of your solitude, and settle into its mystery, your relationships with others take on a new warmth, adventure and wonder.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.
I've always been drawn to solitude, felt a kind of luxurious relief in its self-generated pace and rhythms.
Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.
To be exempt from the Passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing Solitude.
Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.