Only the bad man is alone. [ Diderot ]

Among them, but not of them. [ Byron ]

Solitude's the nurse of woe. [ Parnell ]

A great city a great solitude. [ Proverb ]

Shall I, like an hermit, dwell
On a rock or in a cell? [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

There is no solitude in nature. [ Schiller ]

When, musing on companions gone,
We doubly feel ourselves alone. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

Until I truly loved, I was alone. [ Mrs. Norton ]

Solitude is sometimes best society. [ Milton ]

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills. [ Joseph Roux ]

Hail mildly, pleasing solitude.
Companion of the wise and good,
But from whose holy, piercing eye,
The herds of fools and villains fly;
Oh! how I love with thee to walk,
And listen to thy whispered talk,
Which innocence and truth imparts,
And meets the most obdurate hearts. [ Thomson ]

Great solitude is a sort of madness. [ Proverb ]

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow. [ Goldsmith ]

Nothing is achieved without solitude. [ Lacordaire ]

Solitude is the religion of the soul. [ A. Dumas pere ]

In solitude, where we are least alone. [ Byron ]

Then never less alone than when alone. [ Samuel Rogers ]

Wholesome solitude, the nurse of sense! [ Pope ]

He makes a solitude, and calls it peace. [ Byron ]

In solitude all great thoughts are born. [ Moses Harvey ]

Prisoned in a parlour snug and small,
Like bottled wasps upon a southern wall. [ Cowper ]

Sorrow's faded form, and solitude behind. [ Gray ]

Few are the faults we flatter when alone. [ Young ]

The thought, the deadly feel, of solitude. [ Keats ]

How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude;
But grant me still a friend in my retreat.
Whom I may whisper - solitude is sweet. [ Cowper ]

It is solitude should teach us how to die. [ Byron ]

Solicitude is the audience-chamber of God. [ Walter Savage Landor ]

There is a society in the deepest solitude. [ Isaac Disraeli ]

I was never less alone than when by myself. [ Gibbon ]

We enter the world alone, we leave it alone. [ Froude ]

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. [ Gray ]

In solitude the passions feed upon the heart. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Solitude is the consolation of hearts betrayed.

That inward eye which is the bliss of solitude. [ Wordsworth ]

Solitude is the voice of Nature that speaks to us. [ George Sand ]

Through the lone groves would pace in solemn mood.
Wooing the pensive charms of solitude. [ Pye ]

The secret of solitude is that there is no solitude. [ Joseph Cook ]

Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude. [ Plato ]

Solitude makes us love ourselves, conversation others. [ Proverb ]

Man forms himself in his own interior, and nowhere else. [ Lacordaire ]

Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think [ Mlle. de Guerin ]

Constant quiet fills my peaceful breast with unmixed joy. [ Dillon ]

Solitude is the home of the strong; silence, their prayer. [ Ravignan ]

Solitude dulls the thought, too much company dissipates it. [ Proverb ]

Solitude cherishes great virtues, and destroys little ones. [ Sydney Smith ]

So lonely it was that God himself scarce seemed there to be. [ Coleridge ]

They are never alone who are accompanied with noble thoughts. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good. [ Milton ]

Cursed be the social lies that warp us from the living truth! [ Tennyson ]

Woe unto him that is never alone, and cannot bear to be alone. [ Hamerton ]

Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work. [ Auerbach ]

Ah! wretched and too solitary he who loves not his own company! [ Cowley ]

Solitude, the sly enemy that doth separate a man from well-doing. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

He that lives alone lives in danger; society avoids many dangers. [ Marcus Antoninus ]

O solitude! where are the charms that sages have seen in thy face? [ Cowper ]

Through the wide world he only is alone who lives not for another. [ Rogers ]

Solitude shows us what we should be; society shows us what we are. [ Cecil ]

One can be instructed in society; one is inspired only in solitude. [ Goethe ]

So vain is the belief that the sequestered path has fewest flowers. [ Thomas Doubleday ]

Among the perils and dangers of life, solitude is none of the least. [ Proverb ]

In the world a man lives in his own age; in solitude, in all the ages. [ William Matthews ]

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

Leisure is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction except in solitude. [ Zimmermann ]

The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude. [ Rousseau ]

A talent is perfected in solitude: a character in the stream of the world. [ Goethe ]

Solitude is the worst of all companions when we seek comfort and oblivion. [ Mery ]

Eagles we see fly alone; and they are but sheep which always herd together. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Solitude either develops the mental powers, or renders men dull and vicious. [ Victor Hugo ]

Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius. [ Gibbon ]

Him who lonely loves to seek the distant hills, and there converse with nature. [ Thomson ]

The life of a solitary man will be certainly miserable, but not certainly devout. [ Johnson ]

How many minds - almost all the great ones - were formed in secrecy and solitude! [ Matthew Arnold ]

Where musing Solitude might love to lift her soul above this sphere of earthliness. [ Shelley ]

Nor cell, nor chain, nor dungeon speaks to the murderer like the voice of solitude. [ Maturin ]

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. [ Lowell ]

Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody. [ Zimmermann ]

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. [ Thoreau ]

Alone each heart must cover up its dead; alone, through bitter toil, achieve its rest. [ Bayard Taylor ]

Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world. [ Goethe ]

He is never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less alone than when he is alone. [ Cicero ]

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit; but God to man doth speak in solitude. [ John Stuart Blackie ]

The city does not take away, neither does the country give, solitude; solitude is within us. [ Joseph Roux ]

Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

A bachelor seeks a wife to avoid solitude; a married man seeks society to avoid the tête-à-tête. [ De Varennes ]

We could not endure solitude, were it not for the powerful companionship of hope, or of some unseen one. [ Jean Paul ]

A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul. [ Dr. Watts ]

A creation of importance can be produced only when its author isolates himself; it is ever a child of solitude. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

All great designs are formed in solitude; in the world, no object is pursued long enough to produce an impression. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night. [ James Fenimore Cooper ]

Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui. [ Miss L. E. Landon ]

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. They support us in solitude, and keep us from being a burden to ourselves. [ J. Collier ]

Art needs solitude or misery or passion. Lukewarm zephyrs wilt it. It is a rock-flower flourishing by stormy blasts and in stony soil. [ Alex. Dumas ]

Perpetual solitude, in a place where you see nothing to raise your spirits, at length wears them out, and conversation falls into dull and insipid. [ Lady Montagu ]

We know there oft is found an avarice in grief; and the war eye of sorrow loves to gaze upon its secret hoard of treasured woes, and pine in solitude. [ William Mason ]

Nothing can supply the place of books. They are cheering or soothing companions in solitude, illness, affliction. The wealth of both continents would not compensate for the good they impart. [ Channing ]

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 being weary of themselves. [ Sir W. Temple ]

Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth; for a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love. [ Bacon ]

At the age when the faculties droop, when stern experience has destroyed all sweet illusions, man may seek solitude; but, at twenty, the affections which he is compelled to repress are a tomb in which he buries himself alive. [ E. de Girardin ]

Death is the tyrant of the imagination. His reign is in solitude and darkness, in tombs and prisons, over weak hearts and seething brains. He lives, without shape or sound, a phantasm, inaccessible to sight or touch - a ghastly and terrible apprehension. [ Barry Cornwall ]

The contemplation of night should lead to elevating, rather than depressing, ideas. Who can fix his mind on transitory and earthly things, in presence of those glittering myriads of worlds; and who can dread death or solitude in the midst of this brilliant, animated universe? [ Richter ]

The contemplation of night should lead to elevating rather than to depressing ideas. Who can fix his mind on transitory and earthly things, in presence of those glittering myriads of worlds; and who can dread death or solitude in the midst of this brilliant, animated universe, composed of countless suns and worlds, all full of light and life and motion? [ Richter ]

Society is but the contest of a thousand little opposite interests - an eternal contest between all the vanities that clash with each other, wounded, humiliated the one by the other, and which expiate tomorrow in the disgust of a defeat the triumph of today. To live in solitude, to avoid being crushed in the surging throng, is what the world calls being a nonentity - to have no existence. Poor, miserable humanity! [ Chamfort ]