(232 quotes found)
“To hike down here or mountain bike down here -- you get solitude; you get the place to yourself.”
Tim Peters
“You will loose your sense of solitude on days when all the boaters come streaming by,”
Doug Adams
“I praise the Frenchman, his remark was shrewd - How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude! But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper Solitude is sweet”
William Cowper
“All are needed by each one; Nothing is fair or good alone”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I was a personality before I became a person. I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.”
Barbra Streisand
“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.”
Jessamyn West
“We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.”
Maya Angelou
“No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all other things in the world”
Aristotle
“Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.”
William Arthur Ward
“Lone eagles, soaring in the clouds, fly with silent, peaceful poise,While turkeys, in their earth-bound crowds, fill the atmosphere with noise.”
