But solitude is sadness. ' 'Yes; it is sadness. Life, however, has worse than that. Deeper than melancholy lies heart-break.
Oh you who have been removed from God in his solitude by the abyss of time, how can you expect to reach him without dying?
Where now is Britain?. Even as the savage sits upon the stone That marks were stood her capitols, and hears The bittern booming in the weeds, he shrinks From the dismaying solitude.
The bitter pinecone may be eaten, The mist on high give nourishment. The whole world takes to go-and-getting; My way alone is difficult.
I have a healthy appetite for solitude. If you don't, you have no business being a writer.
Our age is so gregarious that there is at present a marked prejudice against anyone being alone. It is looked down on, and a need to be alone is almost considered a fault, a weakness, as though if one cannot endure - more - enjoy being with other people every minute one is aloof, unreal, and somehow to be pitied.
Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.
On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing in solitude, I oft perceive Fair trains of images before me rise, Accompanied by feelings of delight Pure, or with no unpleasing sadness mixed.
For myself, solitude is rather like a folded-up forest that I carry with me everywhere and unfurl around myself when I have need.
Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.
Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.
We wrote verses that condemned us, with no hope of pardon, to the most bitter solitude.
All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.
I'm not collegial, I don't hang out. I'm soloist, I like my solitude, I don't really hang around with comedians.
Transgression is a quest for solitude
It is useless to advise solitude for everyone; one must be strong enough to endure it and to work alone.
Cause if you’re happy in your head, then solitude is blessed, and alone is okay.
No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in solitude as in society, in the gloom of the churchyard as in the blaze of the drawing-room. The season and the place may be such as to oppress the stoutest heart with a mysterious awe, which, if not fear, is near akin to it.
Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.
Solitude is rich but seldom hilarious.