“I go to work as others rush to see their mistresses, and when I leave, I take back with me to my solitude, or in the midst of the distractions that I pursue, a charming memory that does not in the least resemble the troubled pleasure of lovers.” DoeMemoriesPleasureLoversSolitudePursueMidstDistractionCharmingMistress Author:Eugene Delacroix
“I took a great deal of pleasure in it, and I still feel nostalgic about it. However, I felt that it had led me to live in a parallel world of pure invention, shut inside my solitude. Naturally, it was precisely for that purpose that it was made and that was why I took pleasure in it, but I wanted to regain body and roots.” WorldFeelsMadeStillsBodyWantedPurposeFeltPleasureDealsPureSolitudeRootsInventionParallelsNostalgic Author:Jean Dubuffet
“As there is no pleasure in military life for a soldier who fears death, so there is no independence in civil existence for the man who has an overpowering dread of solitude.” MenPleasureExistenceMilitaryHe ManSolitudeIndependenceSoldierDreadFear Of DeathOverpoweringMilitary Life Book:Human Intercourse Source: Human Intercourse
“We must certainly acknowledge that solitude is a fine thing; but it is a pleasure to have some one who can answer, and to whom we can say, from time to time, that solitude is a fine thing.” AnswersPleasureFineSolitudeAcknowledgeFine Things Author:Honore de Balzac
“Scotland is the country above all others that I have seen, in which a man of imagination may carve out his own pleasures; there are so many inhabited solitudes.” MenMayCountryImaginationPleasureSolitudeScotland Book:Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A.D. 1803 Source: Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland, A.D. 1803
“So the only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost. All the wrong environment will do is run his blood pressure up; he will spend more time being frustrated or outraged. My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.” NeedsLittlesHas BeensRunningArtistMy OwnPleasureEnvironmentBloodCostSolitudePaperToolsPressureTradeMore TimeFrustratedTobaccoWhiskeyOutragedBlood PressureBeing Frustrated Author:William Faulkner
“Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions. The soul then tastes the purest and most refined delight, and almost loses the idea of existence in the intellectual pleasure it receives. The mind on every motion darts through space into eternity; and raised, in its free enjoyment of its powers by its own enthusiasm, strengthens itself in the habitude of contemplating the noblest subjects, and of adopting the most heroic pursuits.” MindIdeasSoulLosesImaginationNaturalSpacePleasureExistenceSilenceFireMeditationSubjectsProduceTasteSolitudeIntellectualEternityProfoundRaisedDelightPursuitEnthusiasmToneEnjoymentConceptionHeroicContemplatingSublimeRefinedAdoptingDarts Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the advantages which solitude is capable of affording, the mind must not be impelled to it by melancholy and discontent, but by a real distaste to the idle pleasures of the world, a rational contempt for the deceitful joys of life, and just apprehensions of being corrupted and seduced by its insinuating and destructive gayeties.” WorldMindRealJoyPleasureSolitudeCapableAdvantageIndependenceNobleRationalAcquireDestructiveMelancholyContemptIdleDiscontentApprehensionJoy Of LifeDeceitfulDistasteAffording Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“Poesy is a beauteous damsel, chaste, honourable, discreet, witty, retired, and who keeps herself within the limits of propriety. She is a friend of solitude; fountains entertain her, meadows console her, woods free her from ennui, flowers delight her; in short, she gives pleasure and instruction to all with whom she communicates.” GivingPleasureFlowerSolitudeLimitsDelightWittyCommunicateWoodsInstructionFountainRetiredMeadowsConsoleProprietyChasteEnnuiDiscreet Author:Miguel de Cervantes
“I wished to acquire the simplicity, native feelings, and virtues of savage life; to divest myself of the factitious habits, prejudices and imperfections of civilization; ... and to find, amidst the solitude and grandeur of the western wilds, more correct views of human nature and of the true interests of man. The season of snows was preferred, that I might experience the pleasure of suffering, and the novelty of danger.” MenHumansFeelingsMightSufferingInterestPleasureViewsVirtueHuman NatureDangerHabitCivilizationSolitudeSeasonsPrejudiceWesternSimplicitySnowAcquireNativeImperfectionSavagesNoveltyGrandeur Book:Evans's Pedestrious Tour Source: Evans's Pedestrious Tour
“Mistake not. Those pleasures are not pleasures that trouble the quiet and tranquillity of thy life.” PleasureMistakeTroubleSolitudeQuietTranquillity Author:Jeremy Taylor