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Solitude18 quotes
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the Lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I Love not Man the Less, but Nature more. — Lord Byron · 1818Love your solitude and bear with sweet-sounding lamentation the suffering it causes you. — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1929The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. — Henrik Ibsen · 1882We live, as we dream—alone. — Joseph Conrad · 1899We shall die alone. — Blaise Pascal · 1662Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. — Marcus Aurelius · 180All 18 quotes →Loneliness3 quotes
Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing. — Fred Rogers · 2003In solitude
What happiness? who can enjoy alone,
Or all enjoying, what contentment find? — John Milton · 1667Silence2 quotes
The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence-free of the network of dead speech. — Freya Stark · 1948I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods. — Georg Trakl · 1912Spending time in nature2 quotes
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the Lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I Love not Man the Less, but Nature more. — Lord Byron · 1818I long for scenes where man hath never trod
A place where woman never smiled or wept
There to abide with my Creator God
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept,
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie
The grass below, above, the vaulted sky. — John Clare · 1848Stillness2 quotes
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods. — Georg Trakl · 1912Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve. — Hermann Hesse · 1927Wilderness2 quotes
The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence-free of the network of dead speech. — Freya Stark · 1948I long for scenes where man hath never trod
A place where woman never smiled or wept
There to abide with my Creator God
And sleep as I in childhood sweetly slept,
Untroubling and untroubled where I lie
The grass below, above, the vaulted sky. — John Clare · 1848Anonymity1 quote
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie. — Alexander Pope · 1700Death1 quote
We shall die alone. — Blaise Pascal · 1662Existential solitude1 quote
We shall die alone. — Blaise Pascal · 1662Independence1 quote
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1902Inner life1 quote
Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Inner peace1 quote
Nowhere can a man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. — Marcus Aurelius · 180Isolation1 quote
Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Man caves1 quote
A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude. — Michel de Montaigne · 1580Nature1 quote
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the Lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I Love not Man the Less, but Nature more. — Lord Byron · 1818Obscurity1 quote
Thus let me live, unseen, unknown;
Thus unlamented let me die;
Steal from the world, and not a stone
Tell where I lie. — Alexander Pope · 1700Ocean and sea1 quote
Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798Relationships1 quote
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1902The forest1 quote
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods. — Georg Trakl · 1912The human condition1 quote
We live, as we dream—alone. — Joseph Conrad · 1899Thinking for oneself1 quote
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. — Henrik Ibsen · 1882Vastness of the ocean1 quote
Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea! — Samuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798