"Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones."

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"And now if you'll excuse me, I should like to finish my book, alone, without the presence of a single ringleted girl to disrupt me. If you should come for me at dinner and find me in my chair, gone to the angels at last, you shall know that I died alone, which is to say in a state of utter bliss."

Libba Bray, American Author

Solitude, Bliss, Reflection, End

"It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence."

Soren Kierkegaard, Danish Philosopher

Solitude, Society, Punishment, Irony

"The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Solitude, Reality, Dream, Friendship

"Legends are born in solitude. Idiots are born in packs."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

Solitude, Truth, Wisdom, Inspirational

"Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

Solitude, God, Pregnancy, Reflection

"If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is evil?"

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

Solitude, Evil, Corruption, Wish

"A wounded heart needs aloof."

Toba Beta, Indonesian Author

Solitude, Healing, Truth, Power, Today

"I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself."

Patrick Rothfuss, Australian Athlete

Solitude, Night, Darkness, Self, Expression

"I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company."

Henry Miller, American Author

Solitude, Shame, Despair, Self

"A person realizes inner calm and a state of rapturous peacefulness with nature whenever they stand in solitude and contemplate their existence in an infinite world filled with multiple galaxies."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Solitude, Peace, Nature, Existence

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"Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737."

Time

"Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time."

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"I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury."

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"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything."

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"The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities."

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"And now if you'll excuse me, I should like to finish my book, alone, without the presence of a single ringleted girl to disrupt me. If you should come for me at dinner and find me in my chair, gone to the angels at last, you shall know that I died alone, which is to say in a state of utter bliss."

"It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence."

"The world and the friends that lived in it are shadows: you alone remain real in this drowsing room."

"Legends are born in solitude. Idiots are born in packs."

"Solitude with God is a place for pregnancy."

"If that which we have found is the corruption of solitude, then what can men wish for save corruption? If this is the great evil of being alone, than what is good and what is evil?"

"A wounded heart needs aloof."

"I've always liked the moonless night best. It's easier to say things in the dark. It's easier to be yourself."

"I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company."

"A person realizes inner calm and a state of rapturous peacefulness with nature whenever they stand in solitude and contemplate their existence in an infinite world filled with multiple galaxies."

Explore more quotes by Sydney Smith

"Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time."

"Bishop Berkeley destroyed this world in one volume octavo; and nothing remained, after his time, but mind; which experienced a similar fate from the hand of Mr. Hume in 1737."

"Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time."

"I have, alas, only one illusion left, and that is the Archbishop of Canterbury."

"I never read a book before previewing it; it prejudices a man so."

"Let the Dean and Canons lay their heads together and the thing will be done."

"What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?"

"Heaven never helps the men who will not act."

"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything."

"The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities."