Acquaintance Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Solitude is a virtue for us, since it is a sublime inclination and impulse to cleanliness which shows that contact between people, “society”, inevitably…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the…

— Ingmar Bergman

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

It is right that you have to have a tolerance for solitude. But when that solitude bears fruit, you can abandon it. You can…

— Richard Ford

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

Solitude is nothing that one can choose or retrain from. We are solitary. We can delude ourselves about this and act as if it…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

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

— Henry David Thoreau

“In principle a Party member had no spare time, and was never alone except in bed. It was assumed that when he was not…

— George Orwell

“To enter solitude, we must disregard what others think of us. Who will understand this call to aloneness? Even our closest friends will see…

— Richard J. Foster

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

The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.

— Albert Einstein

Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.

— Alice Hegan Rice