QUOTES ON SOLITUDE/ LONELY

·         SOLITUDE (LONLINESS). “A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone. " Swift.

·         If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in." W. Humboldt.

·         It had been hard to have put more truth and untruth together in a few words

Than in that speech, " Whosoever is delighted with solitude is either a wild beast or a god."" Bacon.

·         It has been said that he who retires to solitude is either a beast or an angel ; the

censure is too severe, and the praise ' the discontented being, who retires

from society, is generally some good natured man, who has begun his life without experience, and knew not how to gain it in his intercourse with mankind. " Goldsmith,.

·         Those beings only are fit for solitude, who like nobody, and are liked by nobody.

" Zimmermann.

·         That which happens to the soil when it ceases to be cultivated, happens to man

himself when he foolishly forsakes society for solitude ; the brambles grow up in the  desert heart. " Rivarol.

·         In solitude the mind gains strength, and learns to lean upon itself ; in the world it seeks or accepts of a few treacherous sup-Sorts " the feigned compassion of one, the attery of a second, the civilities of a third, the friendship of a fourth ; they all deceive, and bring the mind back to retirement, reflection, and books. " Sterne.

·         No doubt solitude is wholesome, but so is abstinence after a surfeit. " The true life

of man is in society. “Simms.

·         Conversation enriches the understanding but Solitude is the school of genius. "

Gibbon.

·         Living a good deal alone will, I believe, correct me of my faults ; for a man can do

without his own approbation in society, but he must make great exertions to gain

it when he lives alone. Without it I am convinced solitude is not to be endured."

Sydney Smith.

·         An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is

scarcely an idea of more terror. " Burke.

·         Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we

can say how sweet solitude is." W. Jay.

·         Solitude is a good school, but the world is the best theatre ; the institution is best

there, but the practice here : the wilderness has the advantage of discipline and

society opportunities of perfection."Jeremy Taylor.

·         Leisure and solitude are the best effect of riches, because mother of thought.

·       Both are avoided by most rich men, who seek company and business; which are signs of their being weary of themselves."Sir. W. Temple.

·         Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in one of the crowded hives or a college is as solitary as a dervis in the desert. " Tnoreau.

·         If from society we learn to live, it is solitude should teach us how to die. "Byron.

·         One hour of thoughtful solitude may nerve the heart for days of conflict " gearing up its armor to meet the most insidious foe. " Percival.

·         Solitude is the audience chamber of God." L. E. Landon.

·         Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave ; a sepulcher in which the living lie,

where all good qualities grow sick and die. “Cowper.

1.       Amid the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, to hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, and roam along, the world s tired denizen, with none to bless us, none whom we can bless ;this is to be alone ; this, this is solitude." Byron