Age Quote by George Santayana

In solitude there grows what anyone brings into it, the inner beast too. Therefore solitude is inadvisable to many.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Solitude is a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot, a tug of impalpable thread on the web pulling mate…

— Barbara Kingsolver

When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.

— Jose Mujica

Life is a solitude.

— Janet Erskine Stuart

On Man, on Nature, and on Human Life, Musing is solitude

— William Wordsworth

Most people have never known solitude.... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and…

— Louis Aragon

Nature is the clearest source of solitude. The greatness of nature can overwhelm the insignificant chatter by which we measure most of our days.…

— Kent Nerburn

Solitude is an essential quality of wilderness.

— Robert Lucas, Jr

Solitude is naught and society is naught. Alternate them and the good of each is seen.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

— Albert Einstein

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

— Octave Mirbeau

Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

— Caroline Knapp