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.
The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Solitude would be an ideal state if one were able to pick the people one avoids.
“Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.”
Respect the child. Be not too much his parent. Trespass not on his solitude.
Your inability to achieve solitude makes you settle for substandard relationships.
Just like boredom, melancholy is a fundamental human feeling, a companion on the road to solitude.