Solitude Quote by M F K Fisher

Real misanthropes are not found in solitude, but in the world; since it is experience of life, and not philosophy, which produces real hatred…

— Giacomo Leopardi

Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

— Milan Kundera

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

— Liv Tyler

Elegance thrives on exclusion.

— Mason Cooley

“. . . solitude, which is held to be cause of eccentricity, in fact imposes excessive normality, and least in public . . . [p. 7]”

— Shirley Hazzard

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

— Caroline Knapp

As for the dispute about solitude and society, any comparison is impertinent. It is an idling down on the plane at the base of…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Solitude became, for me, an interesting mosaic of broken pieces, a place where the neglected parts of myself get collected—for better and for worse,…

— Laurie A. Helgoe

“Nothing is therefore more dangerous than solitude. Our imagination, forced by its very nature to unfold, nourished by the fantastic visions of poetry, gives…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Solitude is often the best society

— Proverb

Solitude sometimes is best society.

— John Milton

Maybe solitude is best had in the midst of multitudes.

— William Goyen