#solitude

Solitude sometimes is best society. ↗

— John Milton

#privacy #solitude #society

Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, but God to man doth speak in solitude. ↗

— John Stuart Blackie

#doth #glittering #god #makes #man

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude. ↗

— Harold Bloom

#being #consider #days #end #heart

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

— Albert Einstein

#mature #more #painful #solitude #young

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. ↗

— Jorge Luis Borges

#cannot #details #does #i #idle

I love hotels for their solitude and comfort, but I believe a seedy one can have as much promise as a plush one. ↗

— Freema Agyeman

#comfort #hotels #i #i believe #i love

I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#companionable #found #i #never #solitude

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#could #ideal #people #pick #solitude

I don't mind solitude. I love talking to other people, but I do need my space. ↗

— Iris Chang

#i do #i love #love #mind #need

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity. ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#enough #few #few people #foolishness #knowledge