MS May Sarton Poet “Once more I realize that solitude is my element, and the reason is that extreme awareness of other people (all naturally solitary people must feel this) precludes awareness of one's self, so after a while the self no longer knows that it exists.” People Self Solitude ♥ 3
MS May Sarton Poet “Life comes in clusters, clusters of solitude, then a cluster when there is hardly time to breathe.” Life Solitude Breathe ♥ 3
MS May Sarton Poet “There is a wilder solitude in winter When every sense is pricked alive and keen.” Alive Winter Solitude ♥ 3
Honore de Balzac Novelist “Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.” Solitude Labor ♥ 3
Lord Byron Poet, Novelist “Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone.” Feelings Loneliness ♥ 3
Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer “A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.” Men Meditation Solitude ♥ 3
Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer “But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.” Men Solitude Lust ♥ 3
Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer “Ambition is, of all other, the most contrary humor to solitude; and glory and repose are so inconsistent that they cannot possibly inhabit one and the same place; and for so much as I understand, those have only their arms and legs disengaged from the crowd, their mind and intention remain engaged behind more than ever.” Mind Ambition Solitude ♥ 3
Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer “We must reserve a back shop all our own entirely free, in which to establish our real liberty and our principal retreat and solitude.” Real Liberty Solitude ♥ 3
Michel de Montaigne Philosopher, Writer “Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves.” Made Solitude Capacity ♥ 3
