Quotes about Solitude
My overcoat is worn out my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.
— William Tyndale
This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!
— William Wilberforce
And I was taught to feel, perhaps too much, The self-sufficing power of solitude.
— William Wordsworth
She died, and left to me This heath, this calm and quiet scene, The memory of what has been, And never more will be.
— William Wordsworth
Therefore, let the moon shine on thee in thy solitary walk; And let the misty-mountain winds be free to blow against thee.
— William Wordsworth
But oft, in lonely rooms, and mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart, And passing even into my purer mind With tranquil restoration;—feelings too Of unremembered pleasures; such, perhaps, As have made no trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.
— William Wordsworth
The Man of Science seeks truth as a remote and unknown benefactor; he cherishes and love it in his solitude: the Poet, singing a song in which all human beings join with him, rejoices in the presence of truth as our visible friend and hourly companion.
— William Wordsworth
Resigned to vacant musing, Unreproved neglect of all things And deliberate holiday.
— William Wordsworth
They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude And then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the daffodils
— William Wordsworth
Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.
— Woodrow Wilson
Abbandonarsi ai propri pensieri per un'ora, ogni giorno, senza scopo: basta questo per rimanere qualcosa che somigli a un uomo
— Elias Canetti
Since the death of his daughter, a consumptive, he had not thrashed a woman; he lived alone.
— Elias Canetti