Delight Quote by William Wordsworth

There is a rhythm in life, a certain beauty which operates by a variation of lights and shadows, happiness alternating with sorrow, content with…

— Louis Bromfield

In the contemplation of beauty we are raised above ourselves, the passions are silenced and we are happy in the recognition of a good…

— George Santayana

The observations and encounters of a devotee of solitude and silence are at once less distinct and more penetrating than those of the sociable…

— Thomas Mann

The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in…

— Albert Einstein

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

— William Wordsworth

“For we are so constituted by nature, that we are ever prone to compare ourselves with others; and our happiness or misery depends very…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The observations and encounters of a solitary, taciturn man are vaguer and at the same times more intense than those of a sociable man;…

— Thomas Mann

“In a moment of unusual clarity, we eliminate suffering by not wishing for a different life. When we affirm every manifold of our life,…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Solitude, which is one of the most agreeable sensations of the natural man, is one of the most painful and alarming sensations of the…

— William J. Dawson

Over and above the various prejudices I acknowledge, the affinities I feel, the attractions I succumb to, the events which occur to me and…

— Andre Breton

“...nothing is more blissful than to occupy the heights effectively fortified by the teaching of the wise, tranquil sanctuaries from which you can look…

— Lucretius

If you see yourself in a favorable light, if your image of yourself is pleasant, if this visual concept of yourself cannot be shaken…

— Bob Proctor