Life Quote by Giacomo Leopardi

There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

— Ivor Novello

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of…

— Abraham Cowley

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

— Sarah Hall

Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Misanthropy ariseth from a man trusting another without having sufficient knowledge of his character, and, thinking him to be truthful, sincere, and honourable, finds…

— Plato

Since I no longer expect anything from mankind except madness, meanness, and mendacity; egotism, cowardice, and self-delusion, I have stopped being a misanthrope.

— Irving Layton

Solitude is the furnace of transformation. Without solitude we remain victims of our society and continue to be entangled in the illusions of the…

— Henri Nouwen

One ought to love society, if he wishes to enjoy solitude. It is a social nature that solitude works upon with the most various…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Those beings only are fit for solitude who are like nobody, and are liked by nobody.

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

Solitude produces originality, bold and astonishing beauty, poetry. But solitude also produces perverseness, the disproportianate, the absurd and the forbidden.

— Thomas Mann

Solitude is better than the society of evil persons.

— Abu Bakr

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

— Mason Cooley