Quotes about Solitude
Sometimes you have to leave the world in order to learn how to live in it. Thoreau shunned society, went to the woods, and came back with a new understanding of life.
— Henry David Thoreau
I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.
— JRR Tolkien
In solitude we discover that community is not a common ideology, but a response to a common call.
— Henri Nouwen
Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace and rest can never dwell, hope never comes that comes to all.
— John Milton
Sweet bird, that shunn'st the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!
— John Milton
Unrespited, unpitied, unrepriev'd.
— John Milton
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.
— John Milton
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.
— John Milton
Solitude sometimes is best society.
— John Milton
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
— John Quincy Adams
Adversity is the state in which man mostly easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.
— John Wooden
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.
— Emily Bronte