One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Alone Quotes
Byron, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Emil Cioran, Edward Young and Wordsworth lead. Edward Gibbon’s Memoirs (1796) supplies the sentence that sums up the page: he was never less alone than when by himself. Shelley, in 1821, loves tranquil solitude and such society as is quiet, wise and good, and Pope’s Ode on Solitude wants a few paternal acres and the air of one’s own ground.
Three entries are flagged. “Solitude is the mother of anxieties,” credited to Publilius Syrus, is disputed. A passage about sitting and thinking in solitude to the music of the stream and the cedar, credited to John Muir, is marked misattributed, and the note points to a Sierra Club page on Muir misquotes. “Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine” is credited to Balzac and marked misattributed.
Being in a group is fun, but embrace solitude if you want to achieve something.
Solitude has a healing consoler, friend, companion: it is work.
Solitude takes time. One becomes alone, like a towel drying.
Two lovers kissing amongst the screams of midnight,
Two lovers missing the tranquility of solitude.
I had loved so infrequently I felt a debt to those whom I had, for the reprieve from solitude.