Breathe Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

He who understands humanity seeks solitude

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief and sin of idleness.

— Herman Melville

Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only…

— Octavio Paz

He that sympathizes in all the happiness of others, perhaps himself enjoys the safest happiness.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

— Octavio Paz

“It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after your own; but the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Full of love for all things in the world, practicing virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy.

— Gautama Buddha

The world of men has forgotten the joys of silence, the peace of solitude, which is necessary, to some extent, for the fullness of…

— Thomas Merton

“In solitude the solitary man consumes himself, in the crowd the crowd consumes him.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Solitude is a wonderful thing in two ways. First, it allows a man to be with himself, and second, it prevents him being with…

— Paul Hoffman

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without passion, without business, without entertainment, without care. It is then that he…

— Blaise Pascal

A man can be himself only so long as he is alone; and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom;…

— Arthur Schopenhauer