Solitude Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.

— Henry David Thoreau

A bore is someone who takes away my solitude and doesn't give me companionship in return.

— Henry David Thoreau

What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?

— Henry David Thoreau

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

— Henry David Thoreau

I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.

— Henry David Thoreau

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

— Henry David Thoreau

“A man thinking or working will always be alone, let him be where he will.”

— Henry David Thoreau

I have found it a singular luxury to talk across the pond to a companion on the opposite side.

— Henry David Thoreau

The doctors are all agreed that I am suffering for want of society. Was never a case like it. First, I did…

— Henry David Thoreau

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is…

— Henry David Thoreau

As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I…

— Henry David Thoreau

“What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary? I have found that no…

— Henry David Thoreau

I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company…

— Henry David Thoreau

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows. The really diligent student in…

— Henry David Thoreau

I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or…

— Henry David Thoreau

Men seem anxious to accomplish an orderly retreat through the centuries, earnestly rebuilding the works behind them, as they are battered down…

— Henry David Thoreau

I think that I love society as much as most, and am ready enough to fasten myself like a bloodsucker for the…

— Henry David Thoreau

As the truest society approaches always nearer to solitude, so the most excellent speech finally falls into Silence. Silence is audible to…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. I have had twenty-five or thirty souls, with…

— Henry David Thoreau

Ah! I need solitude. I have come forth to this hill at sunset to see the forms of the mountains in the…

— Henry David Thoreau

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. [It allows you to] be the Mungo Park, the Lewis and…

— Henry David Thoreau

My Aunt Maria asked me to read the life of Dr. Chalmers, which, however, I did not promise to do. Yesterday, Sunday,…

— Henry David Thoreau

But it is rather derogatory that your dwelling-place should be only a neighborhood to a great city,--to live on an inclined plane.I…

— Henry David Thoreau

There were times when I could not afford to sacrifice the bloom of the present moment to any work, whether of head…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each…

— Henry David Thoreau

In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean. No amount of gold…

— Henry David Thoreau

I have lately got back to that glorious society called Solitude.

— Henry David Thoreau

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude

— Henry David Thoreau

Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.

— Henry David Thoreau

It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.

— Henry David Thoreau

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.

— Henry David Thoreau

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...

— Henry David Thoreau

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.

— Henry David Thoreau

There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows.

— Henry David Thoreau

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

— Henry David Thoreau

By my intimacy with nature I find myself withdrawn from man. My interest in the sun and the moon, in the morning…

— Henry David Thoreau

You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web…

— Henry David Thoreau

Individuals, like nations, must have suitable broad and natural boundaries, even a considerable neutral ground, between them.

— Henry David Thoreau