Definition of Solitude

Solitude

state of being alone, or withdrawn from society; a lonely life; loneliness.

Remoteness from society; destitution of company; seclusion; -- said of places; as, the solitude of a wood.

solitary or lonely place; a desert or wilderness.

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Solitude Quotations

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein

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

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.
Albert Einstein

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.
Henry David Thoreau

I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Henry David Thoreau

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David Thoreau

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
Henry David Thoreau

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Aristotle

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Thomas A. Edison

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
Jean-Paul Sartre

It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
Rainer Maria Rilke

I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Arthur Schopenhauer

The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude.
Aldous Huxley

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
Thomas Merton

In solitude, where we are least alone.
Lord Byron

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
James Russell Lowell

I owe my solitude to other people.
Alan Watts

To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
Victor Hugo

Conversation enriches the understanding, but solitude is the school of genius.
Edward Gibbon

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
Francis Bacon

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Francis Bacon

There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
Washington Irving

Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich

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Solitude Translations

solitude in Latin is solitudo, solitas
solitude in Spanish is soledad
solitude in Swedish is enslighet, ensamhet

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