Quotes about solitude

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practises it will have neighbors.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

We live, as we dream—alone....

Man shall not live by bread alone

And the life of man, solitary, poore, nasty, brutish, and short.

I wandered lonely as a Cloud

You cannot play the flute by blowing alone: you must use your fingers.

ALONE, adj. In bad company.

GOOD, adj. Sensible, madam, to the worth of this present writer. Alive, sir, to the advantages of letting him alone.

Whatever great advantages nature may give, it is not she alone, but fortune also that makes the hero.

We often persuade ourselves to love people who are more powerful than we are, yet interest alone produces our friendship; we do not give our hearts away for the good we wish to do, but for that we expect to receive.

It is as proper to be boastful alone as it is ridiculous to be so in company.

All passions make us commit some faults, love alone makes us ridiculous.

At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike.

The moment is a kind of public; a man must deceive it into believing that he is doing something; then it leaves us alone to go our way in secret; whereat its grandchildren cannot fail to be astonished.

When we say of a landscape that it has a romantic character, it is the secret feeling of the sublime taking the form of the past, or, what is the same thing, of solitude, absence, or seclusion.

For all other Arts we must make some allowance; but to Greek Art alone we are always debtors.