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.
There's a party in my head and no one is invited
(Solitude is Bliss notation)
I don't like feeling lonely... but in solitude one can get to revalue many things.
Nothing can be accomplished without solitude; I have made a kind of solitude for myself.
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
How many minds—almost all the great ones—were formed in secrecy and solitude!