Busy Quote by Anonymous

Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

— Victor Hugo

Solitude is the place where we can connect with profound bonds that are deeper than the emergency bonds of fear and anger.

— Henri Nouwen

It is a mistake to imagine, that the violent passions only, such as ambition and love, can triumph over the rest. Idleness, languid as…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In nature the most violent passions are silent; in tragedy they must speak and speak with dignity too.

— Lord Chesterfield

In solitude the passions feed upon the heart.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

It is a mighty error to suppose that none but violent and strong passions, such as love and ambition, are able to vanquish the…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

— Anonymous

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

— James Russell Lowell

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels…

— Anonymous

What we [writers] do might be done in solitude and with great desperation, but it tends to produce exactly the opposite. It tends to…

— Junot Diaz

Solitude is unquenched ego.

— Kedar Joshi