Pastoral Resources

He who lives in solitude may make his own laws.

Do your work for six years; but in the seventh, go into solitude or among strangers, so that the memory of your friends does not hinder you from being what you have become.

I really do work in solitude.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Solitude has its own very strange beauty to it.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

I owe my solitude to other people.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.