Solitude Quotes

She discovered that, while solitude with dreams is glorious, solitude without them has few charms. ~ Anne of the Island by Lucy Maud Montgomery No one can be happy in eternal solitude. ~ The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte "The liberty to live for self alone becomes in time a weary bondage." ~ The Rosary by Florence L. Barclay But the truth was that he died from solitude, the enemy known but to few on this earth, and whom only the simplest of us are fit to withstand. ~ Nostromo by Joseph Conrad She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company. ~ The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton The woods are never solitary--they are full of whispering, beckoning, friendly life. But the sea is a mighty soul, forever moaning of some great, unshareable sorrow, which shuts it up into itself for all eternity. ~ Anne's House of Dreams by Lucy Maud Montgomery She had secluded herself from a thousand natural and healing influences; that, her mind, brooding solitary, had grown diseased, as all minds do and must and will that reverse the appointed order of their Maker. ~ Great Expectations by Charles Dickens "The school is not quite deserted," said the Ghost. "A solitary child, neglected by his friends, is left there still." ~ A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens