Sweet Solitude Quotes

#1. Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.

William Jay

#2. Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude
And fled to the silence of sweet solitude.

John Clare

#3. There is no other company in the world I've found more pleasurable than my own. For no one else has ever been as accepting of me or as thoroughly entertained by my quirkiness. It is a sweet thing to like yourself.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#4. O sweet woods, the delight of solitariness!

Philip Sidney

#5. A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#6. It is sweet to mingle tears with tears; Griefs, where they wound in solitude, Wound more deeply.

Seneca The Younger

#7. How sweet, how passing sweet, is solitude!

Jean De La Bruyere

#8. Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where with her best nurse Contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings that in the various bustle of resort were all to-ruffled, and sometimes impaired.

John Milton

#9. Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.

Milan Kundera

#10. It was a long winter of deep snow, solitude, and madness. The satellite kept feeding me digital news of summer in other places. I had to come down from the White Mountain, down into the valley where flowers bloomed, where trees grew new leaves, and hot pants were on!

Robert Earl Wildwood

#11. I inhale loneliness like it is the sweet smell of virgin earth conquered by fiery rain drops. Within me, I'm a thousand others.

Faraaz Kazi

#12. In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be;
Where all the noises, that on peace intrude,
Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee,
Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude.

John Clare