| Author |
Quotes |
| Edward Gibbon | I was never less alone than when by myself. |
| Isaac D Israeli | Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the true parent of genius. In all ages solitude has been called for--has been flown to. |
| Isaac D Israeli | There is a society in the deepest solitude. |
| James Anthony Froude | We enter the world alone, we leave it alone. |
| John Stuart Blackie | Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude. |
| Thomas Doubleday | So vain is the belief That the sequestered path has fewest flowers. |
| William Drummond | Thrice happy he, who by some shady grove, Far from the clamorous world, doth live his own, Though solitary, who is not alone, But doth converse with that eternal love. |
| Marcus Tullius Cicero | That he was never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor that he was ever less alone than when alone. |
| Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe | Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide, wide sea. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. |
| Thomas Fuller | Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. |
| William Cowper | 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 | Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more! |
| William Cowper | O solitude, where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. |
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