- "You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room." (Dr. Seuss)
- "All sorrow has its root in man's inability to sit quiet in a room by himself." (Blaise Pascal)
- "The less you speak, the more you will hear." (Alexander Solshenitsen)
- "Do not look for a sanctuary in anyone except your self." (The Buddha, Siddhartha Gotama)
- "Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good." (unknown)
- "Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self." (May Sarton)
- "In solitude, where we are least alone." (Lord Byron)
- "Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine." (Honore de Balzac)
- "I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity." (Albert Einstein)
- "Solitude is strength; to depend on the presence of the crowd is weakness. The man who needs a mob to nerve him is much more alone than he imagines." (Paul Brunton)
- "It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely." (Albert Einstein)
- "I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers." (Henry David Thoreau)
- "Never be afraid to sit awhile and think. (Lorraine Hansberry)
- "Only in quiet waters do thing mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world." (Hans Margolius)
- "The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude." (Voltaire)
- "Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude." (Paul Tillich)
- "Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul." (Marcus Aurelius)
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"Conversation enriches the understanding; but solitude is the school of genius." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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"The good and the wise lead quiet lives." (Euripides)
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"The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."
(Aldous Huxley)
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"The strong man is strongest when alone."
(Johann Friedrich Von Schiller)
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"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god."
(Francis Bacon)
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"This great misfortune -- to be incapable of solitude."
(Jean de la Bruyère)
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"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."
(Winston Churchill)
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"I have never found a companion so companionable as solitude."
(Henry David Thoreau)
- "Solitude is the nurse of enthusiasm, and enthusiasm is the true parent of genius. In all ages solitude has been called for--has been flown to."
(Isaac D'Israeli)
References:
http://www.quotesdaddy.com/tag/Introvert
http://topten.org/public/BL/BL276.html
http://en.proverbia.net/citastema.asp?tematica=1136&page=2
http://www.quotegarden.com/solitude.html
http://thinkexist.com/quotations/solitude/
http://www.wisdomquotes.com/cat_solitude.html
http://www.worldofquotes.com/topic/Solitude/1/index.html
