“Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is”
William Jay
“He is his own best friend, and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude”
Aristotle
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion, it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who, in the midst of the world, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“Cultivate solitude and quiet and a few sincere friends, rather than mob merriment, noise and thousands of nodding acquaintances”
William Powell
“One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it --those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”
Thomas Alva Edison
