(232 quotes found)
“I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind”
Albert Einstein
“I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
Henry David Thoreau
“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
“Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.”
“Women need real moments of solitude and self-reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.”
Barbara De Angelis
“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”
May Sarton
“I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society”
“The whole value of solitude depends upon one's self; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it”
John Lubbock
“It is better to travel alone than with a bad companion”
African Proverb
“The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.”
