“There is no solitude in the world like that of the big city.”
Kathleen Norris
“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinions; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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.”
“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.”
Thomas Alva Edison
“Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“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.”
Abraham Cowley
“The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction.”
Allen Ginsberg
