Solitude

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SOLITUDE: I was never less alone than when by myself., (Edward Gibbon, English historian, writer and Member of Parliament, 1737-1794)

SOLITUDE: I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

SOLITUDE: I was never less alone than when by myself. (Edward Gibbon, English historian, Member of Parliament, and writer of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 1737-1794)

SOLITUDE: I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. (Henry David Thoreau, U.S. author, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, and historian, 1817-1862)

SOLITUDE: Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. (James Russell Lowell, U.S. Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat, 1819-1891)

SOLITUDE: One can acquire everything in solitude but character. (Stendhal, French writer, 1783-1842)

SOLITUDE: Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. (Octavio Paz, Mexican poet, diplomat, and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 1914-1998)

SOLITUDE: We're all of us sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. (Tennessee Williams, U.S. playwright and recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Drama, 1911-1983)

SOLITUDE: Secret, and self-contained, and solitary as an oyster. (Charles Dickens, English writer and social critic, regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era, 1812-1870)

SOLITUDE: In solitude, when we are least alone. (Lord Byron, English poet and politician who has been recognized as one of the greatest English poets whose work remains widely read and influential, 1788-1824)

SOLITUDE: The strongest man is the one who stands most alone. (Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright and theatre director, 1828=1906)