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Explore the best timeless quotes on Solitude, including thoughts on Solitude. Discover the best Solitude quotes by renowned authors.
1. “In reality you felt at the same time that he could not be friends, nor be really intimate with anyone, and that he could not be so, not because in general he was independent of other people, but because his whole being was for a time turned inwards upon himself.”
Ivan Turgenev
Isolation, Introspection, Friendship, Emotion, Solitude
2. “I gave myself up to fruitless speculation, and was always looking for secluded places. I became particularly fond of the ruined greenhouse. I used to climb, I remember, on to the high wall, settle myself on it and sit there, a youth afflicted by such misery, solitude and grief that I would be overcome with self-pity. How I reveled in these melancholy feelings – how I adored them.” Ivan Turgenev Melancholy, Youth, Solitude, Reflection, Emotion
22. “The very points of my character that are most commended mark me as unfit to reign: love of retirement and of studies inconsistent with business, a passion that has become inveterate in me for peace, for unwarlike occupations, and for the society of men whose meetings are but those of worship and of kindly intercourse, whose lives in general are spent upon their farms and their pastures.” Plutarch Character, Peace, Leadership, Philosophy, Solitude
Solitude Quotes by Famous Authors
Explore the best timeless quotes on Solitude, including thoughts on Solitude. Discover the best Solitude quotes by renowned authors.
1. “In reality you felt at the same time that he could not be friends, nor be really intimate with anyone, and that he could not be so, not because in general he was independent of other people, but because his whole being was for a time turned inwards upon himself.”
Ivan Turgenev Isolation, Introspection, Friendship, Emotion, Solitude
2. “I gave myself up to fruitless speculation, and was always looking for secluded places. I became particularly fond of the ruined greenhouse. I used to climb, I remember, on to the high wall, settle myself on it and sit there, a youth afflicted by such misery, solitude and grief that I would be overcome with self-pity. How I reveled in these melancholy feelings – how I adored them.”
Ivan Turgenev Melancholy, Youth, Solitude, Reflection, Emotion
22. “The very points of my character that are most commended mark me as unfit to reign: love of retirement and of studies inconsistent with business, a passion that has become inveterate in me for peace, for unwarlike occupations, and for the society of men whose meetings are but those of worship and of kindly intercourse, whose lives in general are spent upon their farms and their pastures.”
Plutarch Character, Peace, Leadership, Philosophy, Solitude
